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"I fancied so," said Donna Tullia, "though on seeing you in these seats,
among us Romans--"
"I received a card through the kindness of a friend."
There was a short pause, during which Donna Tullia concluded that the
friend must have been Orsino. But the next remark threw her off the
scent.
"It was his wife's ticket, I believe," said Maria Consuelo. "She could
not come. I am here on false pretences." She smiled carelessly.
Donna Tullia lost herself in speculation, but failed to solve the
problem.
"You have chosen a most favourable moment for your first visit to Rome,"
she remarked at last.
"Yes. I am always fortunate. I believe I have seen everything worth
seeing ever since I was a little girl."
"She is somebody," thought Donna Tullia. "Probably the wife of a
diplomatist, though. Those people see everything, and talk of nothing
but what they have seen."
"This is historic," she said aloud. "You will have a chance of
contemplating the Romans in their glory. Colonna and Orsini marching
side by side, and old Saracinesca in all his magnificence.


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