Taming his astonishment to represent a smile, he remarked: "When?
are you thinking about it already ?" She answered, in a quiet voice that conveyed the fact forcibly, "Yes." "But you're too young yet; and you're going to Italy, to learn in the schools.

You wouldn't take a husband there with you, would you?
What would the poor devil do ?" "But you are not too young," said she.
Wilfrid supposed not.
"Could you not go to my Italy with me ?" "Impossible! What! as a dangling husband ?" Wilfrid laughed scornfully.
"They would love you too," she said.

"They are such loving people.

Oh, come! Consent to come, my lover! I must learn.

If I do not, you will despise me.