One may know her at a vast distance by her dress.

But it is not all settled yet." "Then one cannot congratulate Don Giovanni to-day ?" asked the Duchessa, facing her interlocutor rather suddenly.
"No," he answered; "it is perhaps better not to speak to him about it." "It is as well that you warned me, for I would certainly have spoken." "I do not imagine that Saracinesca likes to talk of his affairs of the heart," said Del Ferice, with considerable gravity.

"But here he comes.

I had hoped he would have taken even longer to get that cup of tea." "It was long enough for you to tell your news," answered Corona quietly, as Don Giovanni came up.
"What is the news ?" asked he, as he sat down beside her.
"Only an engagement that is not yet announced," answered the Duchessa.
"Del Ferice has the secret; perhaps he will tell you." Giovanni glanced across her at the fair pale man, whose fat face, however, expressed nothing.

Seeing he was not enlightened, Saracinesca civilly turned the subject.
"Are you going to the meet to-morrow, Duchessa ?" he asked.
"That depends upon the weather and upon the Duke," she answered.