“What are they really tied for?”
“They’re not tied. The grapevines are festooned from one tree to another in the orchards. Thus it is a vineyard and an orchard both.”
“It sounds lovely. Tell me more.”
“No; I would rather hear you talk. Tell me what you want most to find in Italy.”
“Beauty.”
“There’s plenty of that. Italy is a saturated solution of beauty. Which kind do you want, art or Nature?”
“I know so little about art. A lady at luncheon to-day was surprised because I don’t even know the names of the twelve ‘world-pictures.’”
“World-pictures! What are they? The scenes of Creation?”
“Why, a list of twelve of the greatest pictures in the world.”