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Signora Grassini would
do anything for a celebrity."
"I thought it an unfair and unkind thing to
do; it put the Grassinis into a false position; and
it was nothing less than cruel to the girl herself.
I am sure she felt ill at ease."
"You had a talk with him, didn't you? What
did you think of him?"
"Oh, Cesare, I didn't think anything except
how glad I was to see the last of him. I never
met anyone so fearfully tiring. He gave me a
headache in ten minutes. He is like an incarnate
demon of unrest."
"I thought you wouldn't like him; and, to tell
the truth, no more do I. The man's as slippery
as an eel; I don't trust him."

CHAPTER III.
THE Gadfly took lodgings outside the Roman
gate, near to which Zita was boarding. He was
evidently somewhat of a sybarite; and, though
nothing in the rooms showed any serious extravagance,
there was a tendency to luxuriousness in
trifles and to a certain fastidious daintiness in the
arrangement of everything which surprised Galli
and Riccardo.


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