Chapter 97

We didn't return promptly to the châlet, yet spent the remainder of the day in investigating the ancient pieces of Rivoli.

Daphne, from her likeness to the house of prayer Madonna, drew consideration any place she went.

She regularly communicated her inconvenience at the gazing to which she was uncovered, particularly when she gained from a few semi-perceptible comments that she was viewed as the craftsman's future lady of the hour!

For my own part, I was covertly more than happy at this, knowing that with the increment of her disappointment came a relative diminishing in the craftsman's possibilities of winning her.

It will be promptly speculated that I didn't allow the grass to develop underneath my feet, and without a trace of my opponent I utilized each chance of fortifying my hold upon her kind gestures.

Around the end of the day, when the purple tones of dusk were suffusing the air, and the chime of the Angelus was sounding delicately from the church tower, Daphne and I set o
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