Will that do ?" Falbe laughed.
"Very well indeed," he said.

"Now for 'Good King Wenceslas.' Wasn't it--" "Yes; I got awfully interested over it, Hermann.

I thought I would try and work it up into a few variations." "Let's hear," said Falbe.
This was a vastly different affair.

Michael had shown both ingenuity and a great sense of harmonic beauty in the arrangement of the very simple little tune that Falbe had made him exercise his ear over, and the half-dozen variations that followed showed a wonderfully mature handling.

The air which he dealt with haunted them as a sort of unseen presence.