“Can you play it?” Katie asked her. “No,” said the woman sorrowfully. “No one in the family can play. I wish I could.” “Why did you ever buy it?” “It was in a rich house. The people were selling it cheap. I wanted it so much. No, I couldn’t play it. But it was so beautiful…It dresses up the whole room.” Katie promised to take good care of it until the woman could afford to send for it but as things turned out, the woman never did send for it and the Nolans had this beautiful thing for always.
