Ah yes, your aunt's a sort of guarantee; I believe she may be depended on.

Oh, she's an old Florentine; I mean literally an old one; not a modern outsider.

She's a contemporary of the Medici; she must have been present at the burning of Savonarola, and I'm not sure she didn't throw a handful of chips into the flame.

Her face is very much like some faces in the early pictures; little, dry, definite faces that must have had a good deal of expression, but almost always the same one.
Indeed I can show you her portrait in a fresco of Ghirlandaio's.

I hope you don't object to my speaking that way of your aunt, eh?
I've an idea you don't.