"Here the grandeur of the world centers, and life keeps time with Nature.

You will like it?
You will stay ?" "Oh, for a time, anyway," said Patsy.
"We expect to meet some friends here," explained Uncle John.

"They are coming down from Palermo, but must have been delayed somewhere on the way." "Who are they ?" asked Valdi, brusquely.
"Americans, of course; Silas Watson and Kenneth Forbes.

Do you know of them ?" "No," said the other.

He cast an uneasy glance up and down the street.
"I will meet you again, signorini," he added.