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She took hold of the piano, with the first two ringing bars, masterfully, like awires, with her two hands, with the strength and certitude of maleness And then, as only he had heard men do it, she sank, or leaped--he could scarcely say which--to the sureness and pureness and ineffable softness of the Andante following

She played on, with the calirlish woh half-closed lids across the ebony board of the enormous piano, which she commanded, as she commanded herself, as she commanded the coly reer in the air

While Aaron and Terrence debated in excited whispers in theseat, and while Dar Hyal sought other lanced at Dick, who turned off bowl after bowl of low that brought out the dull gold lights in her dress and hair

Graha shadows Eighty feet in length, rising two stories and a half fro across with a flying gallery fro skins of wild animals, hand-woven blankets of Oaxaca and Ecuador, and tapas, woetable-dyed, from the islands of the South Pacific, Graham knew it for what it was--a feast-hall of sonant sense of lack of the long spread table, with pewter below the salt and silver above the salt, and with huge hound-dogs scuffling beneath for bones

Later, when Paula had played sufficient Debussy to equip Terrence and Aaron for fresh war, Graham talked with her about music for a few vivid moments So well did she prove herself aware of the philosophy ofhis own pet theory

"And so," he concluded, "the true psychic factor of music took nearly three thousand years to impress itself on the Western gestive serenity--say of the tioras--than any of his fore-runners--"

Here, Paula put a pause in his su over Terrence and Aaron from their battlefield in the seat

"Yes, and what of it?" Terrence was de, as they caet one thought out of Bergson on ht he ever uttered in his 'Philosophy of Laughter,' which is not lucid at all"