"Come and have luncheon with me! You are the major-domo for the present--you have engaged the servants and you know the run of the house--you must show me everything and tell me everything! I have quite a nice chaperone--such a dear old English lady 'of title' as they say in the 'Morning Post'-- so it's all quite right and proper--only she doesn't know a word of Italian and very little French.

But that's quite British you know!" She passed, smiling, into the house, and he followed..