The Heart of Penelope

by Marie Belloc Lowndes

CHAPTER V

'There was a Door to which I found no Key:

There was a Veil past which I could not see:

Some little talk awhile of Me and Thee

There seem'd—and then no more of Thee and Me.'

Omar Khayyám.

'Numero Deus impare gaudet.'

Virgil.

I

When the man who remained in local story as the Popish Lord Wantley built Monk's Eype, he planned the arrangements of the lower floor of his villa in a way which was approved by neither his Neapolitan architect nor his English acquaintances.