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also in the big ones. Especially in her studies. I listened to your scales and arpeggios this morning and it was clear to me that you do not understand how to practise. I want you to make rapid progress, so you must improve your studying. Furthermore, you began too late and soon after eleven you put down your violin and went out for a walk with Giacomina. You will not make progress that way."

    It was also brought to my attention that

it was inappropriate for a young person ^particularly a foreigner to express, or even to have, decided views on say Raphaele - That young person might be crossed out: mistaken considered presumptuous.

    One day a hypothetical case came up for consideration:

supposing I were to find myself ^one day in the cottage of a peasant where of course I would be offered a glass of wine. What then?"

    "Perhaps I haven't understood the problem.

Wouldn't I just thank him and perhaps propose a little toast?"

    "But when he is pouring and is reaching