However, I must get back to the morning when I took my song, “Ich habe gelebt und geliebt,” to the great conductor [Herr Hans Richter]. I think, indeed I am almost certain, that Edith Santley accompanied me to his house. She sang it splendidly, and I need hardly say I fully realised that he was far more likely to be favourably impressed if he heard her sing it than if I merely played it.