He told her that he had got them for a mere nothing, and they sat down on the bench behind the house together, turning them over, he holding forth, and now and then discovering through her modest or eager replies, that she had been somehow remarkably well educated by that old Calvinist uncle of hers.

The tincture of Greek and Latin, which had looked so repellent from a distance, presented itself differently now that it enabled him to give his talk rein, and was partly the source in her of these responsive grateful looks which became her so well.

After all perhaps her Puritan stiffness was only on the surface.

How much it had yielded already to Eleanor's lessons! He really felt inclined to continue them on his own account; to test for himself this far famed pliancy of the American woman.
Meanwhile Eleanor moved away, watching the path from Genzano which wound downwards from the Sforza Cesarini villa to the 'Giardino,' and was now visible, now hidden by the folds of the shore.
Presently Manisty and Lucy heard her exclamation.
'At last!--What has Reggie been about ?' 'Coming ?' said Manisty.
'Yes--thank goodness! Evidently they missed that first train.

But now there are four people coming down the hill--two men and two ladies.