"A Florentine villa is a good thing!" he said.

"I am at your service." "I 'm sure I hope you 'll get better there," moaned his mother, gathering her shawl together.
Roderick laid one hand on her arm and with the other pointed to Rowland's statues.

"Better or worse, remember this: I did those things!" he said.
Mrs.Hudson gazed at them vaguely, and Rowland said, "Remember it yourself!" "They are horribly good!" said Roderick.
Rowland solemnly shrugged his shoulders; it seemed to him that he had nothing more to say.

But as the others were going, a last light pulsation of the sense of undischarged duty led him to address to Roderick a few words of parting advice.

"You 'll find the Villa Pandolfini very delightful, very comfortable," he said.