He would not return to Florence for ten days more, and in that time she would have started for Bellaggio.
It might be months in this case before he should see her again.

This exchange took place in the large decorated sitting-room occupied by our friends at the hotel; it was late in the evening, and Ralph Touchett was to take his cousin back to Florence on the morrow.

Osmond had found the girl alone; Miss Stackpole had contracted a friendship with a delightful American family on the fourth floor and had mounted the interminable staircase to pay them a visit.

Henrietta contracted friendships, in travelling, with great freedom, and had formed in railway-carriages several that were among her most valued ties.

Ralph was making arrangements for the morrow's journey, and Isabel sat alone in a wilderness of yellow upholstery.