If I marry Michael I must go on singing as a professional singer, and not become an amateur--the Viscountess Comber, who sings so charmingly.

I refuse to sing charmingly; I will either sing properly or not at all.

And I couldn't not sing.

I shall have to continue being Miss Falbe, so to speak." "You say you insist on it," said Hermann; "but whether you did or not, there is nothing more certain than that Michael would." "I am sure he would.

But by so doing he would certainly quarrel irrevocably with his people.