"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, emphatically.
"Well, I'm glad you like it"-- went on Morgana--"Because then you won't mind staying here and looking after it when I'm away.

I'll have to go away quite soon." Lady Kingswood controlled her first instinctive movement of surprise.
"Really ?" she said--"That seems a pity as you only arrived so recently--" Morgana gave 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 ever made or known ?" "Yes, you told me something about it"-- answered Lady Kingswood--"But you know, my dear, I am very stupid about all these wonderful new inventions.

'Progress of science' they call it.

Well, I'm rather afraid of the 'progress of science.' I'm an old-fashioned woman and I cannot bear to hear of aeroplanes and air-ships and poor wretched people falling from the sky and being dashed to pieces.