Who are they all ?" "The Prince and Princess Ludovisi and the principessina," suggested Rowland.
"There are no such people," said Roderick.

"Besides, the little old man is not the papa." Rowland smiled, wondering how he had ascertained these facts, and the young sculptor went on.

"The old man is a Roman, a hanger-on of the mamma, a useful personage who now and then gets asked to dinner.

The ladies are foreigners, from some Northern country; I won't say which." "Perhaps from the State of Maine," said Rowland.
"No, she 's not an American, I 'll lay a wager on that.

She 's a daughter of this elder world.