However, he retired with the doctor, and made up his mind to be excruciated.

They sat down in two of the stalls and waited.
And then George began to play.

What he played I cannot tell.

It began first in a faint whisper of music which swelled onward into a pure choral melody.

Then suddenly the grand old roof trembled with the clash of a martial movement, strong and steady, which carried the listener onward till he was, with the sound, lost in the far distance.