Diana unfolded.
* * * * * In the course of this first exploratory conversation, it appeared that the two ladies had many experiences in common.

Mrs.Colwood had been two years, her two short years of married life, in India; Diana had travelled there with her father.

Also, as a girl, Mrs.Colwood had spent a winter at Cannes, and another at Santa Margherita.

Diana expressed with vehemence her weariness of the Riviera; but the fact that Mrs.
Colwood differed from her led to all the more conversation.
"My father would never come home," sighed Diana.

"He hated the English climate, even in summer.