We passed Wednesday night at an hotel in order to profit by any information friends might be able to furnish, but we ended by returning to the rooms here we occupied before, of which we knew the virtues--a blaze of sun on the front rooms--and absolute healthiness.

Rents are enormous; we pay only ten dollars a month more than before, in consideration of the desire the old landlady had to get us again.

To anybody else the price would have been 20 more--60 in all--for which we are to pay 40.

The Eckleys took _good rooms_ and pay 1,000 (L210 or 15) for six months! One can't do _that_.
The best is that they have thoroughly cleaned and painted the place, and everything is very satisfactorily arranged.

We take the apartment for four months, meaning to be at liberty to go to Naples if we like.