So, Dalton did.
He told Edward that, including English, he knew how to write, read, and speak in three different languages.
“I learned French because Mother insisted,” he explained. “But I didn’t see the sense in stopping at just that, so I learned Italian as well. I’m teaching myself Spanish now.”
He told Edward that he knew how to play the piano and the violin. Dalton could lose himself in music almost as easily as he could reading.
“There’s just something so calming about it,” he said. “Feeling the notes beneath my fingers. Filling the air with the genius melodies of Mozart and Chopin and Beethoven. Did you know that Mozart composed more than six hundred works? Six hundred! Just imagine!”
He told Edward that while he was far from an artist, he did have some talent with paints and b
