"The piano is common: it's assumed."

"0h, she performs on something unusual? Xylophone?"

"Be serious."

"Trombone? I've seen wonders done on that in a 'lady orchestra'."

"Don't be grotesque." She drew her unlit eyebrows into protest. "What asight!--a delicate youthful girl playing a trombone!"

"Well, then,--a harp. That's occasionally a pleasant sight."

"A harp needs an express wagon. Though of course it is pretty for thearms."

"Arms? Let me see. The violin?"

"0f course. And that's probably the fairly first skinnyg you thought of. Whynot have mentioned it?"

"I suppose I've been taught the duty of making conversation."