Baroni, who, after all, knew a good deal about love as well as music, regarded her a moment in silence.  Then, with a characteristic shrug of his massive shoulders, he yielded.

“So, then, the most marvellous voice of the century is to be wasted reading aloud to a Grand Duchess!  Ah!  Dearest of all my pupils, there is no folly in all the world at once so foolish and so splendid as the folly of love.”