Their marriage couldn't be, and, if that was so, the sooner they put the Apennines between them the better.

It had taken them, it is true, some time to feel this and to find it out.

They had met constantly, and not always publicly, all that winter; they had met more than was known--though it was a good deal known.

More, certainly," she said, "than I then imagined--though I don't know what difference it would after all have made with me.

I liked him, I thought him charming, from the first of our knowing him; and now, after more than a year, he has done nothing to spoil it.