I admired it when I first lay down, but our interest in the flowers and in your letter from Vedius diverted my intention to speak of it.

It is a charming outlook even by moonlight." "Yes," I admitted, with not a little pride.

"Grandfather, of course, dined earlier than is fashionable nowadays.

He built this _triclinium_ so that he could bask in the rays of the declining sun and could watch the sunset colors as they varied and deepened.

My uncle used to dine as early as his father and, even in the hottest weather, enjoyed the direct rays of the sun on him as he dined, for he was always rheumatic and chilly, yet he enjoyed the beauty of the view even more." "It is charming even by moonlight," Tanno repeated, "and that although the villa is between our outlook and the moon, so its shadow darkens the nearer prospect." We all contemplated the view through the window.