Well, I've just told her not only that I'd behave like a friend, but that I'd changed and felt like one.

Pretty much of a lie that was!" He laighed, without any amusement.

"But it was successful, and I suppose I can keep it up.

At any rate we're going over to Venice with her and her mother to-morrow.
Afterwards, we'll see them in Naples just before they sail." "To Venice with them!" I could not repress crying out.
"Yes; we join parties for two days," he said, and stopped at a window and looked out attentively at nothing before he went on: "It won't be very long, and I don't suppose it will ever happen again.

The other man is to meet them in Rome.