Crossword-Solution: BENDEL 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

She answered: “Yes and no; I am acquainted with them, but I do not care to know them.” “Why not? They seem to be very nice.” “Because--” “This morning I met the husband on the terrace and we took a little walk together.” Seeing that there was danger in the air, Bendel added: “It was he who spoke to me first.” His wife looked at him in a displeased manner.

Tancret, good old Tancret, whom he, Bendel, loved as a brother and whom he continued to see on the sly, since his wife, he did not know why, had grown angry at the charming fellow.

But Bendel is good, too, in his way, and is much sought after by the Americans--you're not American, are you? No.--Well, the English colony runs the American close nowadays.

Still another American lady, Miss Martin, was studying with Bendel, the rival of Schwarz; and as she lived in the same quarter of the town as Dove and Maurice, the three of them often walked home together.

She told him, too, some of the gossip the musical quarter of the town was rife with, about those in high places; and, in particular, of the bitter rivalry that had grown up with the years between Schwarz and Bendel, the chief masters of the piano.