After dinner, Rudyard proposed to take the two German ladies for a little walk. The younger baroness came to Cornélie and asked if she would come too, to see Rome by moonlight, quite close, from the Villa Medici. She felt grateful for the kindly suggestion and was just going to put on her hat, when Miss Hope ran after her:
“Stay and sit with me in the drawing-room.”
“I am going for a walk with the Baronin,” Cornélie replied.
“That German lady?”
“Yes.”
“Is she a noblewoman?”
“I presume so.”
“Are there many titled people in the house?” asked Miss Hope, eagerly.
Cornélie laughed:
“I don’t know. I only arrived this morning.”