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I. Plot 1. Setting: Midway of the Ponte Vecchio at Florence, where three arches break the line of the little jewelers’ booths flittering on either hand, and open an approach to the parapet, Colville lounged against the corner of a shop and stared out upon the river. It was the late afternoon of a day in January, which had begun bright and warm, but had suffered a change of mood as its hours passed, and now …

…for her and bringing them to her. While she was still in the midst of an ice, the faint note of the piano sounded “Oh, they’re beginning again! It’s the Lancers!” she said, giving him the plate back. She took his arm again; she almost pulled him along on their return. “Why don’t you dance?” she demanded, mockingly. He replied by saying “I would if you’d let me dance with you”.