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At that rass bordered on either side by flowers, and approached her

"Here are so the familiar or "pet" name she elected to call her by "Specially selected, I assure you! Are you tired?--or swood took the roses with a sana's cheek playfully with one of the paler pink buds

"A talk by all means!" she replied--"How can I be tired, dear child? I' all day but enjoy ly

"That's right!--I'lad!" she said "That's what I want you to do! It's a pretty place, this Palazzo d'Oro, don't you think?"

"More than pretty--it's a perfect paradise!" declared Lady Kingswood, eana--"Because then you won'tafter it when I'swood controlled her first instinctive movement of surprise

"Really?" she said--"That seeave a wistful glance round her at the beautiful gardens and blue sea beyond

"Yes--perhaps it is a pity!" she said, with a light shrug of her shoulders--"But I have a great deal to do, and ever so much to learn I told you, didn't I?--that I have had an air-ship built for me quite on my own lines?--an air-ship that moves like a bird and is quite different from any other air-ship everabout it"--answered Lady Kingswood--"But you know, my dear, I aress of science' they call it Well, I'ress of science' I'm an old-fashioned woman and I cannot bear to hear of aeroplanes and air-ships and poor wretched people falling fro dashed to pieces The solid earth is quite good enough for hed

"You dear Duchess!" she said, affectionately--"Don't worry! I' to ask you to travel in my air-ship--I wouldn't so try your nerves for the world! Though it is an absolutely safe ship,--nothing"--and she emphasised the word--"NOTHING can upset it or drive it out of its course unless natural law is itself upset! Now let us sit here"--and she dreicker chairs into the cool shadow of the loggia and set theo on! TellLady Kingswood seat herself in slower, less supple fashion--"tell me--what does it feel like to be married?"