CHAPTER IV

The Symposium By the aid of diligent practicing in private, and several rehearsals at Garnet's house, the girls at last got their duet to run smoothly. Garnet was frankly pleased. "The two instruments go so nicely together! A mandoline's ever so much better played with a guitar accompaniment than with the piano. I say, suppose we were to get an encore!" "I don't suppose anything of the sort." "Don't be too modest. It's as well to be prepared." "I'm not going to practice anything more, so I warn you." "Well, take so…