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Updated: May 11, 2025
It broke the mid-day silence. Argo barked loudly. "Dio Gesù!" Pipa cried wildly out. "The signorina, she is dead! Help! help!" Many hours had passed. Enrica lay still unconscious upon her bed, her face framed in her golden hair, her blue eyes open, her limbs stiff, her body cold.
"Countess Lena von Lenkenstein, Countess Violetta d'Isorella, signorina Irma di Karski." She spoke the names out like a sum that she was paying down in gold pieces, and immediately rang the bell for her servant and carriage, as if she had now acquitted her debt. Wilfrid bowed himself forth.
Of course you must be either Italian, or French, or German, or Hungarian, or Spanish. There is no great Italian soprano just now. I advise you to be an Italian. You are Signorina Signorina what? Logotheti, do make haste! You know Italian. 'May I ask where you were born, Miss Donne? inquired Logotheti. 'In Oxford. But what has that to do with it?
"I'll be the concierge, Smith the steward, and Kitty your maid." "And I?" asked Worth. "Oh, you can be her Highness' private secretary and attend to the correspondence." The laughter which followed this was light-hearted and careless. Once more worry had taken to wing and they were without burdens. Only La Signorina did not join the merriment.
We kept open house, and where there is a good table and a beautiful young lady like our signorina, the gallants are not far off. Among them was a very aristocratic gentleman of middle age, the Marquis d'Avennes, whom her excellenza had expressly invited. We had never received any prince with so much attention; but this was a matter of course, for his mother was a relative of her excellenza.
He closed his letter with a reference to Isaura: "Do, in your reply, my dear Savarin, tell me something about your friends Signora Venosta and the Signorina, whose work, so far as yet published, I have read with admiring astonishment at the power of a female writer so young to rival the veteran practitioners of fiction in the creation of interest in imaginary characters, and in sentiments which, if they appear somewhat over-romantic and exaggerated, still touch very fine chords in human nature not awakened in our trite every-day existence.
I presume that the beauty of the roman has been duly appreciated by a public so refined as the Parisian, and that the name of the author is generally known. No doubt she is now much the rage of the literary circles, and her career as a writer may be considered fixed. Pray present my congratulations to the Signorina when you see her."
But the traffic started before dawn, with a bang and a rattle of carts, and a bang and jingle of tram-cars over the not-distant bridge. Oh, noisy Florence! At half-past seven Aaron rang for his coffee: and got it at a few minutes past eight. The signorina had told him to take his coffee in bed. Rain was still falling. But towards nine o'clock it lifted, and he decided to go out. A wet, wet world.
Then I turned away, full of my own sad thoughts, and strolled in the falling twilight beside the grey sea. Just before dinner, after re-entering the hotel, I wrote a note and gave it to the hall-porter to send to the Signorina. "The Signorina and the Signora have left, Signore. They went down to the boat for Naples half an hour ago." I tore up the note, and next day left Palermo.
"Gaspare," he said quickly, "have you looked everywhere for the Signora?" "I have looked in the house, Signore. I have been on the terrace and to the Signorina in the garden. Then I came to tell you. I thought you should know about the Signora and the fattura della morte."
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