NOTE

OF the stories contained in this volume, "A Florentine Experiment" was originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, and the others in HARPER'S MAGAZINE.

CONTENTS

PAGE
[DOROTHY][1]
[A TRANSPLANTED BOY][60]
[A FLORENTINE EXPERIMENT][122]
[A WAITRESS][187]
[AT THE CHÂTEAU OF CORINNE ][237]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[DOROTHY] [Frontispiece]
[THE VILLA DORIO ] Facing page[4]
["AND AGAIN SHE LOOKED UP AT HIM"] "[22]
["'I MEAN THAT I SHALL SEE HIM VERY SOON NOW'"] " [56]
["'OH, HOW EARLY YOU'VE COME UP!' SAID MASO"] "[70]
["'MR. TIBER, BEG!'"] "[72]
["WE MUST SINK OR SWIM TOGETHER, MASO"] "[90]
[BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WATERHOUSE] "[96]
[TEA IN THE GARDEN] "[188]
["THE DOG WAS FOLLOWING AT THE EXTREME LENGTH
OF HIS CORD"] 		"[218]

DOROTHY

I

AS it was Saturday, many visitors came to the villa, Giuseppe receiving them at the open door, and waving them across the court or up the stone stairway, according to their apparent inclination, murmuring as he did so: "To the garden; the Signora North!" "To the salon; the Signora Tracy!" with his most inviting smiles. Dorothy probably was with Mrs. North in the garden. And everybody knew that the tea and the comfortable chairs were up-stairs. The company therefore divided itself, the young people as far as possible, the men who like to appear young, and the mothers who have heavier cares than the effects of open-air light on a middle-aged complexion, crossing the paved quadrangle to the north hall, while the old ladies and the ladies (not so old) who detest gardens ascended the stairs, accompanied by, first, the contented husbands; second, the well-trained husbands; third, other men, bond or free, who cherish no fondness for damp belvederes, for grassy mounds, or for poising themselves on a parapet which has a yawning abyss below.