13, 1845.] II.
There followed fifteen years during which the inexhaustible correspondents of the last twenty months exchanged no further letter, for they were never parted.

That is the sufficient outward symbol of their all but flawless union.

After a leisurely journey through France, and an experimental sojourn at the goal of Mrs Browning's two frustrated journeys, Pisa, they settled towards the close of April 1847 in furnished apartments in Florence, moving some four months later into the more permanent home which their presence was to render famous, the Palazzo (or "Casa") Guidi, just off the Piazza Pitti.
Their life--mirrored for us in Mrs Browning's vivid and delightful letters--was, like many others, in which we recognise rare and precious quality, singularly wanting in obviously expressive traits.

It is possible to describe everything that went on in the Browning household in terms applicable to those of scores of other persons of wide interests, cultivated tastes, and moderate but not painfully restricted means.

All that was passionate, ideal, heroic in them found expression through conditions which it needs a fine eye to distinguish from those of easy-going bourgeois mediocrity.