In fact, there was during the meal a perceptible air of something like disquietude.

Mr.
Ruggles in particular said almost nothing, and wore an appearance of what seemed like anxiety.

Once he turned to his host: "When ought I to get an answer to that cable, Hartleigh?
to-day, do you think ?" "Yes, I should say so without doubt," was the reply, "if it's answered promptly, and in fact there's plenty of time.

Remember that we are about six hours earlier than New York by the clock, and it's only about seven in the morning over there." * * * * * Coffee was served on the balustraded platform of the flight of marble steps leading down to the grounds below.
"Mary," said Mrs.Hartleigh, when cigarettes had been offered, "don't you want to show Mr.Lenox something of La Violante ?" "I shall take you to my favorite place," she said, as they descended the steps together.
The southern front of the grounds of the Villa Violante is bounded and upheld by a wall of tufa fifty feet in height and some four hundred feet long.

About midway of its length a semicircular bench of marble, with a rail, is built out over one of the buttresses.