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Updated: June 19, 2025
She prided herself on the brilliancy with which she played the piano especially the scherzo passages. "But b but she looks such an intelligent child," she said. "Yes. That's why," said the duke happily. Miss Belthorp blinked again; then in a somewhat helpless tone she said: "Oh, very well, your Grace." When the door closed behind her, the duke smiled happily and rubbed his hands together.
As they came into the court Miss Belthorp chanced to say: "I do hope that you haven't been neglecting your piano, Marion. I always think that music is so important in the formation of character." Pollyooly had not been neglecting her piano, because she had no piano to neglect.
She greeted him with a like perfunctoriness and introduced him to Miss Belthorp. He greeted her politely; then he looked at the Lump with a very good air of surprise and said: "Who's the kid?"
"She has: has she?" said the duke; and he looked at her somewhat queerly. "It's perfectly wonderful!" said Miss Belthorp. "Oh, well: it's a very good thing. I dare say it will come in useful one of these days," said the duke. On their walk that morning he told Pollyooly that Miss Belthorp had said that she was a marvel at languages; and Pollyooly was very pleased to hear it.
The suite of rooms when Pollyooly had last occupied it, had consisted of her bedroom and school-room, and the bedroom and the sitting-room of the governess. To these the duke had added a nursery bedroom for the Lump and a bedroom for his nurse. In the schoolroom they found Miss Belthorp awaiting them; and the duke presented her to Pollyooly.
After it, having seen the Lump safely on his way upstairs with Miss Belthorp, Pollyooly followed the duke into the smoking-room. "Please, your Grace: Miss Belthorp seems to expect me to know how to play the piano; and I don't know how to at all," she said gravely. "The deuce you don't!" said the duke. "Here's another thing I never thought of."
But at half-past three, just as Miss Belthorp had left them to write letters and they had started for the home wood, the obedient Emily came hurrying along the garden to say that the duke wished Pollyooly to put on her prettiest clothes and come with him to pay a call.
The piano played no part in any of the seven standards she had passed at Muttle Deeping school; and she did not know one note from another. She was taken aback by the suggestion that she was expected to show herself accomplished in music. Evidently she must consult the duke. She and the Lump and Miss Belthorp lunched with him, or rather they dined and he lunched.
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