Have you seen the terrace at San Gaetano ?" "Ah, that terrace," murmured Mrs.Light, amorously.

"I suppose it is magnificent!" "It is four hundred feet long, and paved with marble.

And the view is a thousand times more beautiful than this.

You see, far away, the blue, blue sea and the little smoke of Vesuvio!" "Christina, love," cried Mrs.Light forthwith, "the prince has a terrace four hundred feet long, all paved with marble!" The Cavaliere gave a little cough and began to wipe his eye-glass.
"Stupendous!" said Christina.

"To go from one end to the other, the prince must have out his golden carriage." This was apparently an allusion to one of the other items of the young man's grandeur.
"You always laugh at me," said the prince.