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You will have to drive
up, I'm afraid. . . . Mr. Keith, I have not yet thanked you for those
flowers and the book you sent. The flowers are quite too lovely. Look
at them! You are spoiling me--you really are! But I don't think I shall
like the book. Lady Cecilia and her maid and that man, I forget his
name--they do all sorts of things. They don't seem to be very nice
people."
"You have nothing but nice people round you, Duchess. Why should you
want to read about them? There is so much goodness in real life. Do let
us keep it out of our books."
"That sounds a dreadful doctrine. I see the PARROCO is about to take
his departure. Why does everybody leave so soon?"
She wandered away.
"The English are supposed to be bad linguists," said Don Francesco. "It
is one of those curious international fallacies, like saying the French
are a polite nation--"
"Or that home-made marmalade tastes better than the stuff you buy in
shops," added Denis. "I must help the Duchess to say good-bye to those
people.


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