CHAPTER XIV.
Shortly after six o'clock in the evening we left the Villa de Angelis.
The day had been as usual cloudlessly serene; but a gentle sea-breeze, of which I have spoken, rose in the afternoon and brought with it a refreshing coolness.

We had arranged a sort of couch in the landau with many cushions for my brother, and he mounted into the carriage with more ease than I had expected.

I sat beside him, with Raffaelle facing me on the opposite seat.

We drove down the hill of Posilipo through the ilex-trees and tamarisk-bushes that then skirted the sea, and so into the town.

John spoke little except to remark that the carriage was an easy one.