Yes; it's my first time in Europe.' 'Well, Italy's not bad; is it?
Nice place, Rome, anyway.

Aren't you rather knocked over by it?
I was when I first came.' 'I've only been here four days.
'And of course nobody here has time to take you about.

I can guess that! How's the book getting on ?' 'I don't know,' she said, opening her eyes wide in a smile that would not be repressed, a smile that broke like light in her grave face.
Her companion looked at her with approval.
'My word! she's dowdy'-- he thought--'like a Sunday-school teacher.

But she's handsome.' The real point was, however, that Mrs.Burgoyne had told him to go out and make himself agreeable, and he was accustomed to obey orders from that quarter.
'Doesn't he read it to you all day and all night ?' he asked.

'That's his way.' 'I have heard some of it.