Tony behind them made a sudden movement that let out nearly a yard of rope, and the Farfalla listed heavily to starboard.
‘Tony!’ Constance threw over her shoulder. ‘Don’t you know enough to sit still when you are holding the sheet?’
‘Scusi,’ he murmured. The sulky look had vanished from his face; he wore an expression of alert attention.
‘Of course we shall have them at the villa,’ said Miss Hazel. ‘And we shall have to get some new dishes. Elizabetta has already broken so many plates that she has to stop and wash them between courses.’
Constance looked dreamily across the lake; she appeared to be thinking. ‘I wonder,’ she inquired finally, ‘if Jerry Junior knew we were here in Valedolmo?’
Her father emerged from the columns of his paper.
‘Of course he knew it, and having heard what a dangerous young person you were, he said to himself, “I’d better keep out.”’
‘I wish I knew. It would make the score against him considerably heavier.’
‘So there is already a score? I hadn’t supposed that the game had begun.’
She nodded.