I go in search of the Signorina Costantina who is beautiful as the angels in Paradise, and who lives in a rose-colored villa set in a cypress grove on the shores of Lake Garda--not a bad setting for romance, is it, Gustavo ?--Dinner, I believe, is at seven o'clock ?" "_Si_, signore, at seven; and would you like veal cooked Milanese fashion ?" "Nothing would please me more.

We have only had veal Milanese fashion five times since I came." He waved his hand jauntily and strolled whistling down the arbor that led to the lake.

Gustavo looked after him and shook his head.

Then he took out the two-lire piece and rang it on the table.

The metal rang true.