"Mother, let's go!" said the angry beauty, imperiously, in her mother's ear. "I don't like to be seen with Lady Kitty! She's impossible!"
And with cold farewells the three ladies departed. Then Kitty sprang up and threw away her cigarette.
"How those girls bully their mother!" she said, with scorn. "However, it serves her right. I'm sure she bullied hers. Well, now we must go and do something. Ta-ta!"
Lord Magellan, to whom she offered another casual finger, wanted to know why he was dismissed. If they were going sight-seeing, might he not come with them?"
"Oh no!" said Kitty, calmly. "Sight—seeing with people you don't really know is too trying to the temper. Even with one's best friend it's risky."
"Where are you? May I call?" said the young man.
"We're always out," was Kitty's careless reply. "But—"
She considered—
"Would you like to see the Palazzo Vercelli?"
"That magnificent place on the Grand Canal? Very much."