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It was only to make fun of Sabetta that you began, now it is always." He only laughed at her grave remonstrance. "Oh, don't you preach at me, Ntoniella!" he said, in the very language she was deprecating. "There are lots of things I can say to you that sound nicer that way." He turned from the piano at last and took up an English newspaper that he had previously opened.
"Nina, Nina!" he called, "you must make haste; the Risposta will soon be coming near, and we must be down in town to welcome Maurice and Francie when they come ashore." In a second or two she was ready, and he also. "There are so many things I shall have to tell Maurice," he said, just as they were about to leave the house. "But do you think I shall be able to tell him, Ntoniella? No.
"Leo, why will you not take any of my money?" Nina exclaimed, but with shy and downcast face. "Your money!" he said, laughing. "You talk as if you were a Russian princess, Ntoniella!" He drew aside the reeded blind of one of the windows and went out into the soft air; both land and sea that beautiful stretch of shining blue seemed quivering in the heat and abundant sunlight of June.
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