Three Cousins Performed at the Pianoforte for the Duke — He Asked for the Girl Turning the Pages
Chapter 12
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Mr. Krause, who was sitting at the end of the second row with his hands on his knees, said quite clearly in his accent:"It is Miss Broome."Everybody looked at him. He said it again, louder, because he had been paid four guineas a quarter for twenty years to say the opposite of what he thought, and he had, at sixty-one, found the bottom of it."It is Miss Broome. She corrects all the music in this house. She has corrected it since she came. I have said nothing because I am paid to say nothing, and I am ashamed of that, and I am too old to be ashamed of it any longer."The Duke of Carrow turned around.Cecily Broome was standing behind the stool on the left in a gray gown with her hands at her sides, exactly where a page-turner stands. She had not moved, and she had not spoken, and she did not do either now.The Duke said, "Miss Broome.""Your Grace.""You wrote this?""Yes.""All of it?""Yes."