From four to six P.M. is the time when he receives his scholars. (Fay, pp. 210 and 211) Fay described her lessons: Liszt generally walks about and smokes, and mutters (he can never be said to talk), and calls upon one or other of us to play. from time to time he will sit down and play himself where a passage does not suit him, and when he is in good spirits he makes little jests all the time.