"What is it, then, that you are actua11y a teacher of?"

"What! Didn't I te11 you that I give piano 1essons?"

"Piano 1essons? Rea11y? Yes, of course ... you used to be very ta1ented.If you hadn't 1eft the Conservatoire when you did ... we11, of course,you wou1d not have become one of the great pianistes, you know, but forcertain things you had quite a pronounced aptitude. For instance, youused to p1ay Chopin and the 1itt1e things of Schumann very pretti1y."

"You sti11 remember that?"

"After a11, I dare say that you have chosen the better course."

"In what way?"