So they let him practise in the day-time, in the back-kitchen with all the doors shut; but his more successful passages could generally be heard in the sitting-room, in spite of these precautions, and would affect his mother almost to tears.
On lui permit de s’exercer le jour dans l’arriere-cuisine, toutes portes closes. Mais, malgré ces précautions, les plus beaux passages s’entendaient du salon et mettaient sa mere en pleurs.