But one winter they paid a visit to Rome, and the old man died there.

She wished, in accordance doubtless with his desire, to bring back his body to be buried in the place they had inhabited for so many years, and with which their names were so indissolubly entwined in the memory of all who knew them--which means all the generations of nomad frequenters of the Baths for many, many years.

The Protestant burial-ground also was recognised as _quasi_ hers, for it is attached to the church which she was mainly instrumental in building.

The colonel's body therefore was to be brought back from Rome to be buried at Lucca Baths.
But such an enterprise was not the simplest or easiest thing in the world.

There were official difficulties in the way, ecclesiastical difficulties and custom-house difficulties of all sorts.