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"There will be all the more credit in succeeding, if you have to break through a barrier of tradition and prejudice," said Madame d'Aragona, reverting rather abruptly to the first subject. "You do not know what that means." Orsino shook his head incredulously. "You have never tried it." "No. How could a woman be placed in such a position?" "That is just it. You cannot understand me."
"A Bacchante! Fie, Monsieur and then, the leopard, when we only have a tiger." "Indian princess interviewed by a man-eater jungle new moon tropical vegetation " "You can think of nothing but subjects for a dark type," said Madame d'Aragona impatiently. "The fact is, in countries where the tiger walks abroad, the women are generally brunettes." "I hate facts.
On the morning which Orsino and Madame d'Aragona had spent in Gouache's studio the Countess Del Ferice entered her husband's study in order to consult him upon a rather delicate matter. He was alone, but busy as usual. His attention was divided between an important bank operation and a petition for his help in obtaining a decoration for the mayor of the town he represented.
Not more than half of those who hoped to witness the ceremony saw anything of it, though the basilica will hold some eighty thousand people at a pinch, and the crowd on that occasion was far greater than at the opening of the Oecumenical Council in 1869. Madame d'Aragona had also determined to be present, and she expressed her desire to Gouache.
"That does not follow. Women often understand men men they love or detest better than men themselves." "Do you love me, Madame?" asked Orsino with a smile. "I have just made your acquaintance," laughed Madame d'Aragona. "It is a little too soon." "But then, according to you, if you understand me, you detest me." "Well? If I do?" She was still laughing. "Then I ought to disappear, I suppose."
There is Madame d'Aragona who has no seat, he says. One must arrange that. So it is arranged." "By Don Orsino?" "You would not accept? No. A young man, and you have only met once. But tell me what you think of him. Do you like him?" "One does not like people so easily as that," said Madame d'Aragona, "How have you arranged about the seat?" "It is very simple. There are to be two days, you know.
He never had anything to do, since his education had been completed. Why should he not walk with Madame d'Aragona and talk to her? It would be better than hanging about the club or reading a novel at home. The hounds did not meet on that day, or he would not have been at Gouache's at all. But they were to meet to-morrow, and he would therefore not see Madame d'Aragona.
"I have a disappointment in store for you," answered Orsino. "My father says that Hercules wore a lion's skin. He is quite right, I remember all about it." "Of course," said Gouache. "How could we make such a mistake!" He dropped the bit of chalk he held and looked at Madame d'Aragona. "What difference does it make?" asked the latter. "A lion a tiger! I am sure they are very much alike."
It looks awkward." "The dew-claw?" asked Orsino. "It is higher up, behind the paw. You would hardly see it in the skin." "But a cat has five claws," said Madame d'Aragona. "Is not a tiger a cat? We must have the thing right, you know, if it is to be done at all." "Has a cat five claws?" asked Anastase, appealing anxiously to Orsino. "Of course, but you would only see four on the skin."
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