She and Aunt Pattie must needs make all the greater efforts to carry off the festa.

Aunt Pattie chattered nervously like one in dread of a silence, while Eleanor was merry with young Brooklyn, and courteous to the other guests whom Manisty had invited--a distinguished French journalist for instance, an English member of Parliament and his daughter, and an Italian senator with an English wife.
Nevertheless when the party was breaking up, Reggie who had thrown her occasional glances of disquiet, approached Lucy Foster and said to her in a low voice, twirling an angry moustache-- 'Mrs.Burgoyne is worn out.

Can't you look after her ?' Lucy, a little scared by so much responsibility, did her best.

She dissuaded Aunt Pattie from dragging Mrs.Burgoyne through an afternoon of visits.

She secured an early train for the return to Marinata, and so earned a special and approving smile from Mr.Reggie, when at last he had settled the three ladies safely in their carriage, and was raising his hat to them on the platform.