You shall have a specimen of the mode in which she spends her days during the winter season.

Her morning is devoted to dressing, breakfasting, her children, and her husband.

From one to three she returns the visits she has received, in the exact form in which they were paid to her.

The first act of politeness is to go and see your acquaintance; the second, to leave your card in person; the third, to send the same bit of pasteboard by a servant _ad hoc_.

At three, all the world drives to the Villa Borghese, where there is a general salutation of acquaintances with the tips of the fingers.