Some day Fate would come along and take them down
from that shelf where they were stored, and dust them and present them
to her afresh with a new significance.
For a brief moment Errington's kiss had roused her dormant womanhood,
and then the events of daily life had crowded round and lulled it
asleep once more. In swift succession there had followed the vivid
interest of increasing musical study, the stirrings of ambition, and a
whole world of new people to meet and rub shoulders with.
So that the end of her second year in London found Diana still little
more than an impetuous, impulsive girl, possessed of a warm,
undisciplined nature, and of an unconscious desire to fulfil her being
along the most natural and easy lines, while in spirit she leaped
forward to the time when she should be plunged into professional life.
The whole of her training under Baroni, with the big future that it
held, tended to give her a somewhat egotistical outlook, an instinctive
feeling that everything must of necessity subordinate itself to her
demands--an excellent foundation, no doubt, on which to build up a
reputation as a famous singer in a world where people are apt to take
you very much at your own valuation, but a poor preparation for the
sacrifices and self-immolation that love not infrequently demands.
Above all else, this second year of study had brought in fullest
measure the development and enriching of her voice.
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