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"I only wish mother would ether

She presented a dainty figure in creaabardine and a broad-brimmed straw hat which suited her admirably Her clothes were made by a certain famous couturiere in Hanover Square, for Lady Ranscohter as well as she did herself Gowns make the lady nowadays, or the fashionable dresses

"Then you also are tired of the place?" asked Hugh, as he strolled slowly at her side in a dark-blue suit and straw hat They made a handsome pair, and were indeed well suited to each other Lady Ransco people had fallen so violently in love with each other

"Yes," said the girl "Mother promised to spend Easter in Florence I've never been there and aeri, e ate last summer, has a villa there, and has invited us for Easter Butthat she preferred to remain here"

"Why?"

"Oh! Solishwo to see beyond the Galleries, and that the place is very catty"

Hugh laughed and replied: "All British colonies in Continental cities are catty, my dear Dorise They say that for scandal Florence takes the palm I went there for two seasons in succession before the war, and found the place delightful"

"The Marchesa is a char woman Her husband was an attache at the Italian Eton, so she has gone back to Florence I like her immensely, and I do so want to visit her"

"Oh, you must persuade your mother to take you," he said "She'll be easily persuaded"

"I don't know She doesn't like travelling in Italy She once had her dressing-case stolen from the train between Milan and Genoa, so she's always horribly bitter against all Italians"

"There are thieves also on English railways, Dorise," Hugh reerate the shortconers, and close their eyes to the faults of the British"

"But everybody is not so cos her eyes to those of her lover

"No," he replied with a sigh

"Why do you sigh?" asked the girl, having noticed a change in her coely thoughtful and preoccupied

"Did I?" he asked, suddenly pulling hih