VIII
Ritratto
AND she said:
“You remember Mr. Lowell,
“He was your ambassador here?”
And I said: “That was before I arrived.”
And she said:
“He stomped into my bedroom....
(By that time she had got on to Browning.)
“ ... stomped into my bedroom....
“And said: ‘Do I,
“ ‘I ask you, Do I
“ ‘Care too much for society dinners?’
“And I wouldn’t say that he didn’t.
“Shelley used to live in this house.”
She was a very old lady,
I never saw her again.
HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY
(LIFE AND CONTACTS)
“Vocat æstus in umbram”
Nemesianus Ec. IV.