It's all soft and mellow--it has the Italian colouring." They made a good many plans, but they left themselves also a good deal of latitude; it was a matter of course, however, that they should live for the present in Italy.

It was in Italy that they had met, Italy had been a party to their first impressions of each other, and Italy should be a party to their happiness.

Osmond had the attachment of old acquaintance and Isabel the stimulus of new, which seemed to assure her a future at a high level of consciousness of the beautiful.

The desire for unlimited expansion had been succeeded in her soul by the sense that life was vacant without some private duty that might gather one's energies to a point.

She had told Ralph she had "seen life" in a year or two and that she was already tired, not of the act of living, but of that of observing.