The music stops abruptly, and the silence makes it all the clearer that it had been the sound of several instruments. Two or three seconds later, the door opens, showing only a pink-faced Feuilly, or rather Feuilly and a dog. "Hello! Hello! Please, come in--I was listening to some music--klezmer music, it's Jewish--Eastern European--"

He looks not at all surprised by the armful of books. Segundus will no doubt notice that his books have many friends in Feuilly's room.