"I went first to Paris, and I was at Genoa in November." "We must have been there--just about then! Mamma died in October.

And I remember the winter was just beginning at Genoa--it was very cold--and I got bronchitis--I was only a little thing." "And Oliver tells me you found a home at Portofino ?" Diana replied.

He kept her talking; yet her impression was that he did not listen very much to what she said.

At the same time she felt herself _studied_, in a way which made her self-conscious, which perhaps she might have resented in any man less polished and less courteous.
"Pardon me--" he said, abruptly, at a pause in the conversation.

"Your name interests me particularly.