She no longer looked _dowdy_ when entering a room, but very much the reverse; and the little Florentine world began to recognise that they had got something very much like a new Corinne among them.

But of course I rarely got a chance of monopolising her as I had done during that first afternoon.

We were however constantly meeting, and were becoming ever more and more close friends.

When the Garrows left Florence for the summer, I visited them at Lucerne, and subsequently met them at Venice.

It was the year of the meeting of the Scientific Congress in that city.
That was a pleasant autumn in Venice! By that time I had become pretty well over head and ears in love with the girl by whose side I generally contrived to sit in the gondolas, in the Piazza in the evening, etcaetera.