The dark pigtail is decent enough, but if it comes to a matter of chumming give me 'Freckles' for choice." The Villa Camellia was a high-class boarding-school for English-speaking girls whose parents were residents, permanently or temporarily, in the neighborhood of Naples.

It was generally described as an Anglo-American college, for the arrangements were accommodated to suit the customs of both sides of the Atlantic.

Miss Rodgers and her partner, Miss Morley, the two principals, came respectively from London and New York; one teacher had been trained in Boston, and another at Oxford, while the British section of the community included girls from South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.

Pupils belonging to other European races were not received, the object of the college being to preserve the nationality of girls who must of necessity be educated in a foreign land, and whose parents did not wish them to attend Italian schools.

The arrangements were of course modified by the climate and by the customs of the country.