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"Huh?" demanded the man. "Alfy Dupoy? Who's that? Her feller?" "Oh, dear me, no!" gasped Helen. "His name is Henri Marchand. I shall have to tell her that." "Needn't mind," returned the man. "I can't be blamed for misunderstanding half what you Easterners say. You got me locoed right from the start."
The place to-day is a little dilapidated, and its statues broken, but in the summer months it becomes the paradise of a school of girls, a fact which I think might have pleased Byron. However, the Shelleys were thinking of no such faded splendour as Villa Dupoy for their summer retreat.
Villa Dupoy, as it was called in Byron's day, is now in the summer months used as a girls' school: and, indeed, it would be easy to house a regiment in its vast rooms, where here and there a seventeenth century fresco is still gorgeous on the walls, and the mirrors are dim with age.
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