You must excuse me for looking at it, but usually at this season only German Alpine-climbers stop at the Hotel du Lac, and I was surprised you know to find that German Alpine-climbers did anything so frivolous as reading Gyp." The man bowed with a gesture which made her free of the book, but he continued his silence.

Constance glanced at him again, and this time she allowed a flash of recognition to appear in her face.
"Oh!" she re-exclaimed with a note of interested politeness, "you are the young man who stumbled into Villa Rosa last Monday looking for the garden of the prince ?" He bowed a second time, an answering flash appearing in his face.
[Illustration: "The man bowed with a gesture which made her free of the book"] "And you are the young woman who was sitting on the wall beside a row of--of--" "Stockings ?" She nodded.

"I trust you found the prince's garden without difficulty ?" "Yes, thank you.

Your directions were very explicit." A slight pause followed, the young man waiting deferentially for her to take the lead.
"You find Valedolmo interesting ?" she inquired.
"Interesting!" His tone was enthusiastic.

"Aside from the prince's garden which contains a cedar of Lebanon and an India rubber plant from South America, there is the Luini in the chapel of San Bartolomeo, and the statue of Garibaldi in the piazza.