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

"What! Didn't I tell you that I give piano lessons?"

"Piano lessons? Really? Yes, of course ... you used to be very talented.If you hadn't left the Conservatoire when you did ... well, of course,you would not have become one of the great pianistes, you know, but forcertain things you had quite a pronounced aptitude. For instance, youused to play Chopin and the little things of Schumann very prettily."

"You still remember that?"

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

"In what way?"