The seat in the garden on which I proposed is doubtless still to be seen, with the chair near it on which her papa was at that very moment sitting, with one of his feet on a small table.

During the three sunny days that followed, my life was one delicious dream, with no sign that the awakening was at hand.
"So far I had not mentioned the incident at Franzenshohe to her.

Perhaps you will call my reticence contemptible; but the fact is, I feared to fall in her esteem.

I could not have spoken of the plank without admitting that I was afraid to cross it; and then what would she, who was a heroine, think of a man who was so little of a hero?
Thus, though I had told her many times that I fell in love with her at first sight, she thought I referred to the time when she first saw me.

She liked to hear me say that I believed in no love but love at first sight; and, looking back, I can recall saying it at least once on every seat in the garden at the baths of Bormio.
"Do you know Tirano, a hamlet in a nest of vines, where Italian soldiers strut and women sleep in the sun beside baskets of fruit?
How happily we entered it; were we the same persons who left it within an hour?
I was now travelling with her party; and at Tirano, while the others rested, she and I walked down a road between vines and Indian corn.