And Mrs.Marsh specially introduced me to a very charming young couple, the Count and Countess Pasolini of Ravenna, as the author of _A Siren_.

They said they had been most anxious to know who could have written that book! They thought that no Englishman could have been resident at Ravenna without their having known him, or at least known _of_ him.

And yet it was evident that a writer, who could photograph the life and society of Ravenna as it had been photographed in the book in question must have resided there and lived in the midst of it for some time.

But I never was in Ravenna for a longer time than a week in my life.
It was many years after the visit of George Eliot and Mr.Lewes to my house at Ricorboli that I and my wife visited them at The Heights, Witley, in Surrey.

I found that George Eliot had grown! She was evidently happier.