I am always introduced, but I have no idea to whom, and I am quite lost in London. What with twenty years in Poland and seven- teen in Paris, it's not surprising that I am getting on slowly here, particularly as I don't speak the language. They don't chatter while I am playing and they apparently all speak well of my music, but my little colleagues are usually treated with such scant respect that I appear to be a kind of amateur, and I shall soon be regarded as a kind of nobleman, for I have clean shoes and I don't carry around visiting-cards inscribed: "Private lessons given. Evening engagements accepted." << less