"I had always meant to take you to Naples and Sicily for that first trip, my darling. And I have been thinking, too, how we will make you comfortable on board the Diamante. I mean to shift my first mate to a berth amid-ships, and turn his present cabin into a sort of dressing-room and counting-house for myself. Then we will knock away the partition between my own two little cabins, and make a good state room for you. Mind, I expect my littlo wife to be a good sailor 1 She will have to go round the world with me." A vettura drawn hy a white horse came jolting under the archway, and drew up in the middle of the yard. The girl ■ had shrunk back at the-first sound of wheels; but seeing the old white horse, she was re assured, and went on talking. 'Tonio Moretti's horses w-cre both bays. " How long would it take to go round tho world ?" she asked.
