A very handsome woman--disheveled, in tears, in despair, in dishabille!" Rowland reflected a moment, not on the attractions of Mrs.Light under the circumstances thus indicated by the Cavaliere, but on the satisfaction he would take in accusing Christina to her face of having struck a cruel blow.
"I must add," said the Cavaliere, "that Mrs.Light desires also to speak to you on the subject of Mr.Hudson." "She considers Mr.Hudson, then, connected with this step of her daughter's ?" "Intimately.

He must be got out of Rome." "Mrs.Light, then, must get an order from the Pope to remove him.

It 's not in my power." The Cavaliere assented, deferentially.

"Mrs.Light is equally helpless.
She would leave Rome to-morrow, but Christina will not budge.

An order from the Pope would do nothing.