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"I didn't go quite so far as that, surely, did I?" Mr. Shinner softly insinuated. He might have been pouring honey from his mouth. "Surely I didn't say quite that? And perhaps I had been too much influenced by Paris." "Yes, you said he wasn't a concert-player and never would be " "Don't rub it in, madam," said Mr. Shinner merrily. "Peccavi." "What's that?"
Has your husband made any arrangements yet for London or for a provincial tour? I have reason to think that the season will be particularly brilliant. And I can now offer advantages " "But, Mr. Shinner, when I last saw you, and it isn't so very long ago, you told me that my husband was not a concert-player, which was exactly what I had heard in Paris."
For the event of his plan proving impracticable at home they had no idea of it he was training as a concert-player; but he intended to miss no chance that offered, of learning how to handle an orchestra. Throughout these hours of stimulating companionship, however, he did not lose sight of his original purpose in going to see Madeleine.
Such an account, which would be interesting in the case of any remarkable virtuoso who devoted himself to instruction, is so in a higher degree in that of Chopin: first, because it may help us to solve the question why so unique a virtuoso did not form a single eminent concert-player; secondly, because it throws still further light on his character as a man and artist; and thirdly, because, as Mikuli thinks may be asserted without exaggeration, "only Chopin's pupils knew the pianist in the fulness of his unrivalled height."
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