Music of the Heart (Warrender Saga Book 6) by Burchell Mary

Author:Burchell, Mary [Burchell, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Endeavour Media
Published: 2017-04-10T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

MORE than once during the hour or so before Marc came to take her out to dinner, Gail was tempted to telephone again and say that she could not come, after all. But, each time, her desire to go was just a bit stronger than her fear of the consequences. And so, when he arrived at seven o’clock, she was ready and waiting for him.

She looked from the window when the bell rang and saw that he was driving the car in which he had fetched her and Oliver from the station, that very first day. And, as she ran downstairs to join him, she could not help thinking how dramatically her life had changed since that day.

Her view of Marc had changed a good deal too. Not only because she had met him and talked with him since, but because it was not possible to have studied his work so intensively without gaining some knowledge of the sensitivity, the feeling for beauty, the real compassion and the deep human warmth which his music revealed.

‘I feel rather guilty to be dragging you out when you’re tired.’ He smiled at her as she got into the seat beside him. ‘But I must say you look remarkably fresh and charming for an exhausted girl.’

She laughed and said that she had had time to rest and was now ready to enjoy herself.

‘It must have been a lot worse for you,’ she declared as they drove away from the house. ‘To hear your own work given rough, smooth or sheerly brutal treatment over and over again, before a critical audience, must have been sheer murder.’

‘It was,’ he assured her. But he seemed able to smile about it now, all the same.

‘Just before I began — when I was feeling at my very worst — I caught a glimpse of you in the light from the stage,’ she told him. ‘You looked very much as I was feeling, and I realized suddenly that it must be ten times worse for you. While I was feeling sorry for you I somehow didn’t feel so frightful about myself. It steadied me quite a bit.’

‘Was that why you sang so beautifully?’

‘I suppose it was. If I did sing beautifully.’

‘You did, Gail. In fact, quite a lot of your performance would not have disgraced the most accomplished artist. I had no idea that you truly knew so much about your job. I completely underestimated you that time I first heard you. And I’m prepared to admit it now.’

‘Oh —’ she said, and cleared her throat nervously. Then after that she was silent. Partly because she was greatly moved by his generous admission. Partly because she wondered, rather panic-stricken, how long it would be before she somehow let slip the fact that someone other than herself was chiefly responsible for that incredibly mature performance.

He appeared to find nothing unusual in her silence, probably putting it down to the fact that she was, admittedly, tired and willing to take things lazily.

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