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"
She raised her head with a start.
"Arthur! Oh, I didn't know you--belonged
here!"
"And I had no idea about you. Jim, since when
have you----?"
"You don't understand!" she interposed
quickly. "I am not a member. It is only that
I have done one or two little things. You see, I
met Bini--you know Carlo Bini?"
"Yes, of course." Bini was the organizer of the
Leghorn branch; and all Young Italy knew him.
"Well, he began talking to me about these
things; and I asked him to let me go to a students'
meeting. The other day he wrote to me to
Florence------Didn't you know I had been to
Florence for the Christmas holidays?"
"I don't often hear from home now."
"Ah, yes! Anyhow, I went to stay with the
Wrights." (The Wrights were old schoolfellows
of hers who had moved to Florence.) "Then Bini
wrote and told me to pass through Pisa to-day on
my way home, so that I could come here. Ah!
they're going to begin."
The lecture was upon the ideal Republic and
the duty of the young to fit themselves for it.


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