Julius came to claim Rose for the quadrille. They were silent at first, and embarrassed.
"How did you like Italy?" she said, by way of breaking the silence.
"Not at all."
"Indeed! then you are singular. I thought every one must like it. Perhaps you prefer contradiction?'
"No; I was in no frame of mind to enjoy anything."
She trembled slightly; the chaine des dames, by obliging her to quit his side, prevented her speaking. When they again stood quietly beside each other, he continued,—
"We went to see everything, and the only result was, that we so tired ourselves during the day, that we slept soundly at night."
"But the pictures, the statues, the architecture, the people?"
"I saw them all; but they all wearied me."
"You were rehearsing Childe Harold, I suppose?" she said, with a feeble attempt at liveliness, which her voice belied.