What happened next? That's all I know."
"Directly afterwards," said Georgie, "she brought the music to me, and
asked me to show her where the passage of tenths came. I didn't know,
but I found some tenths, and she brightened up and said 'Yes, it is
true; those submerged tenths are very impressive.' Then I suggested
that the submerged tenth was not a musical expression, but referred to
a section of the population. On which she said no more, but when she
went away she asked me to send her some book on 'Harmony.' I daresay
she is looking for the submerged tenth still."
Olga lit a cigarette and became grave again.
"Well, it can't go on," she said. "We can't have the poor thing feeling
angry and out of it. Then there was Mrs Quantock absolutely refusing to
let her see the Princess."
"That was her own fault," said Georgie. "It was because she was so
greedy about the Guru."
"That makes it all the bitterer. And I can't do anything, because she
blames me for it all. I would ask her and her Peppino here every night,
and listen to her dreary tunes every evening, and let her have it all
her own way, if it would do any good. But things have gone too far; she
wouldn't come. It has all happened without my noticing it. I never
added it all up as it went along, and I hate it."
Georgie thought of the spiritualistic truths.
"If you're an incarnation," he said in a sudden glow of admiration,
"you're the incarnation of an angel.
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