They should be here now." "Goggling country bumpkins ?" he conjectured.
"Not a bit like that," I countered, "though you would scarcely call them cultured.

There is no art connoisseur among them.

They care little for books, but they are educated gentlemen and can talk of other subjects besides vine-growing and cattle breeding.

They have all been to Rome, the Ducconians are the only stay-at-home, stick-in-the-mud family in this valley.

You will find all your fellow-diners keenly interested in anything you can tell them about the latest fashions and the latest gossip from Rome.