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"Pauline will just love to go with you," said Mrs. Parker Bangs.
"She dotes on rural music."
"Rubbish, aunt!" said Miss Lister, who had slipped into an empty
chair near Myra. "I agree with Miss Champion about 'services of
song,' and I don't care for any music but the best."
Jane turned to her quickly, with a cordial smile and her most
friendly manner. "Ah, but you must come," she said. "We will be
victimised together. And perhaps Dal and Lawson will succeed in
converting us to the cult of the 'service of song.' And anyway it
will be amusing to have Dal explain it to us. He will need the
courage of his convictions."
"Talking of something 'really exciting in the way of music,'" said
Pauline Lister, "we had it on board when we came over. There was a
nice friendly crowd on board the Arabic, and they arranged a concert
for half-past eight on the Thursday evening. We were about two
hundred miles off the coast of Ireland, and when we came up from
dinner we had run into a dense fog.


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