It isn't as though they had the breath of life breathed into them and could come down from their canvases as some of them do." "Oh," he protested, "did you think of that for yourself?
It was the Princess who said it to me." "The Princess of the Dragon ?" "She came to me last night on the lagoon.

It was wonderful,--the water shine and the rosy glow.

I was wishing I had insisted on your coming, and all at once there was the Princess." "The one who stayed or the one who ran away ?" "She declined to commit herself.

I suppose it's one of the things a man has to find out." He experienced a great lift of his spirit in the girl's light acceptance of his whimsicality, it was the sort of thing that Eunice Goodward used to be afraid to have any one hear him say lest they should think it odd.

It occurred to him as he turned and walked beside Miss Dassonville that if he had come to Italy with Eunice there might have been a great deal that she would not have liked to hear.