We are spending the summer here in Valedolmo, and Mrs.Eustace and Nannie have promised to stop with us for a few days, provided you can be persuaded to pause in your mad rush through Europe.

Now please take pity on us--guests are such unusual luxuries, and as for _men_! Besides a passing tourist or so, we have had nothing but Italian officers.

You can climb mountains with my father--Nan says you are a climber--and we can supply mountains enough to keep you occupied for a month.
'My father would write himself, only that he is climbing this moment.
'Yours most cordially, 'CONSTANCE WILDER.' 'P.S .-- I forgot to mention that we are acquainted already, you and I.We met six years ago, and you insulted me--under your own roof.
You called me a _kid_.

I shall accept nothing but a personal apology.' Having read it critically, she sealed and addressed it with malicious delight; it was calculated to arouse just about the emotions she would like to have Tony entertain.

She gave the note to Giuseppe with instructions to place it in Gustavo's hands, and then settled herself gaily to await results.
Giuseppe was barely out of sight when the two Alpine climbers appeared at the gate.