He picked up a handful of violets and tossed them over her head.
"When I was a boy this was where men fought duels," said David Rossi.
"The brutes! What a lovely spot! Must be the place where Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes!"
"Or where Adam found Eve in the garden of Eden?"
They looked at each other and smiled.
"What a surprise that must have been to him," said Roma. "Whatever did he think she was, I wonder?"
"An angel who had come down in the moonlight and forgotten to go up in the morning!"
"Nonsense! He would know in a moment she was a woman."
"Think of it! She was the only woman in the world for him!"
"And fancy! He was the only man!"