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"That will seem a good deal like being back in the States," declared Adrian. "With the Stars and Stripes flying over my head, a brigade of American troops on guard and an American girl singing, I can almost forget I am on Mexican soil." "How about the accompanist?" queried Billie. "Oh!" laughed Adrian, "we're quite willing to adopt her. Hey, Donald?" "Don't ask me, Ad. Ask Billie."
You know how, at a concert, a prima donna who has just sung insists on shaking hands with the accompanist, and dragging him forward, to show how beautiful her nature is, into the applause that is for herself alone. And your heart, like mine, has gone out to the wretched victim.
"You mean, I suppose, that you are afraid to risk the outraged dignity of this ward of yours. I think that's a lovely name for her. Don't you?... You're acquiring such a benevolent old attitude. The only thing to be done, I fancy, is to adopt some transparent ruse some sort of Daddy-Long-Leggish deception." She closed her eyes thoughtfully "Hiring her as my accompanist, for instance." She rose to dispense Scotch and soda. Stillman sat in thoughtful silence, while Mrs. Condor talked to very trivial purpose. She seemed suddenly to have grown tired of the subject of Claire Robson. The arrival of the expected dressmaker broke in upon the rather one-sided tête-
"Then," said Billie decidedly, "you must certainly do something at the ship's concert to-morrow! The idea of your trying to hide your light under a bushel! I will tell Bream to count on you. He is an excellent accompanist. He can accompany you." "Yes, but ... well, I don't know," said Sam doubtfully.
Bowman's piano, she shuddered at the realization that it might have been her undoing, had it chanced that her enemy passed the house, with a suspicion that she was inside. She would never dare to seek a position as accompanist, and she knew how futile it would be for her to attempt to teach music in an unknown city, among strangers. She might starve to death before a single pupil appeared.
She also insisted that, under whatever auspices she should go to America, she should have as an accompanist Mr. afterwards Sir Julius Benedict, the composer, and Signor Belletti, an eminent Italian singer. Finally, on January 9, 1850, Wilton succeeded in his mission.
He was an incomparable accompanist, and Diana, feeling herself supported, and upborne, sang with a beauty of interpretation, an intensity of feeling, that had been impossible before. And through it all she was acutely conscious of Max Errington's proximity knew instinctively that the passion of the song was shaking him equally with herself.
"I approve the charity, and I happened to have a free night. Moreover, it will give Arlt a chance to accompany." "But she won't pay him." "No, but I generally manage to pay my own accompanist." "Do you think he will gain from such a thing?" Crossing his knees comfortably, Thayer lighted the pipe he had been filling, and took a tentative puff or two. "I don't know," he said dubiously.
There was a little confusion, the sound of a fall, and simultaneously some one inadvertently pushed the door to. The next minute the accompanist was the centre of a small crowd of anxious, questioning people.
But when she has mastered her song or rôle, she needs an accompanist, for she can never play the music as it should be played while she endeavors to interpret the song as that should be sung. One cannot do complete justice to both at the same time. "In order to study all the subjects required, the girl with a voice must be willing to give most of her day to the work.
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