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His mind was still playing the slow minor theme of the sonata's opening movement. Suddenly the air was shattered with the noise of warning guns. As if released by a single switch, a dozen searchlights sprang into the sky, crossing and blending in a swerving glare. There was the piercing warning of bugles and the heavy booming of maroons.
Taking her last remark as a cue, she told him funny stories about the eccentricities of the sonata's great composer, how he would storm and rage up and down his room like a madman, and how he hired a boy to pump water over his head by the hour, in case of emergency. Mr. Harrison remarked that it was funny how all musicians were such queer chaps, but even that did not discourage Helen.
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