Frau Wohlgemuth had once or twice been astonished at the severe look fixed upon her by the buxom English lady, but happily would never receive an explanation of this silent animus.

Then there was Fraulein Kriel, who had unwillingly incurred even more of Mrs.
Bradshaw's displeasure, in that she, an unmarried person, had actually looked over the volume together with its possessor, not so much as blushing when she found herself observed by strangers.

The remaining persons were an English family, a mother and three daughters, their name Denyer.
Mrs.Denyer was florid, vivacious, and of a certain size.

She had seen much of the world, and prided herself on cosmopolitanism; the one thing with which she could not dispense was intellectual society.

This would be her second winter at Naples, but she gave her acquaintances to understand that Italy was by no means the country of her choice; she preferred the northern latitudes, because there the intellectual atmosphere was more bracing.