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Updated: May 17, 2025
"I will even go to the length of spending an hour a day at the club, if that will do any good and you know how I detest clubs. But if anything whatever is known of her, it will be known there." Giovanni kept his word and expended more energy in attempting to find out something about Madame d'Aranjuez during the next few days than he had devoted to anything connected with society for a long time.
Orsino waited in vain, not knowing whether to be annoyed at the lack of consideration bestowed upon him, or to admire the tact which assumed that he would never wish to enter the Del Ferice circle. It is presumably clear that Orsino was not in love with Madame d'Aranjuez, and he himself appreciated the fact with a sense of disappointment.
You see, if one flatters his cleverness he does not mind being called ugly or at least I thought not, until to-day. But to my consternation he seemed angry, and he asked me almost savagely if it were true that the Countess d'Aranjuez that is what he called you, my dear really tried to avoid him in the street.
I think not. Half an hour is little, perhaps, but half a day is enough. You are not an insignificant son of an unknown Roman citizen, nor is Madame d'Aranjuez a person who passes unnoticed. Reporters watch people like you for items of news, and you are perfectly well known by sight.
She knew that well enough, and the supposition that his first young passion might be for Madame d'Aranjuez was by no means comforting. Corona immediately felt an interest in that lady which she had not felt before and which was not altogether friendly. It seemed to her necessary in the first place to find out something definite concerning Maria Consuelo, and this was no easy matter.
Orsino was very much surprised and not by any means pleased, for he saw that the elder woman had forced the introduction by a rather vulgar trick. Nevertheless, he could not escape. "Since you have been good enough to recognise me," he said rather stiffly to Donna Tullia, "permit me to make you acquainted with Madame d'Aranjuez d'Aragona."
But he had not the slightest intention of marrying at one and twenty as several of his old school-fellows were doing, and he was sensible enough to foresee that his position as a desirable son-in-law would soon cause him more annoyance than amusement. Madame d'Aranjuez was doubtless aware that she could not marry him if she wished to do so.
You will excuse me?" Del Ferice extended himself upon a leathern lounge, and Orsino sat down in a deep easy-chair. "I was so sorry not to be able to come away with you to-day," said Orsino. "The truth is, Madame d'Aranjuez wanted some information and I was just going to explain that I would stay a little longer, when you asked us both to dinner. You must have thought me very forgetful."
When he comes back Madame d'Aranjuez will have retired to the chaos of the unknown out of which Orsino has evolved her." "She does not look the kind of woman to disappear at the right moment," observed Corona doubtfully. Giovanni was at that moment supremely comfortable, both in mind and body. It was late.
"When I tell you that in this letter, Madame d'Aranjuez has confided to me the true story of her origin, I have probably said enough," continued the young man. "You have said too much or too little," Spicca answered in an almost indifferent tone. "How so?" "Unless you tell me just what she has told you, or show me the letter, I cannot possibly judge of the truth of the tale."
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