races communicated with each other in the language of pantomime, and was mortified to find her shrugs and smiles so unintelligible. At length she returned with a lamp; and Archer, having meanwhile put together a phrase out of Dante and Petrarch, evoked the answer: \"La signora e fuori; ma verra subito\"; which he took to mean: \"She's out—but you'll soon see.\"
What he saw, meanwhile, with the help of the lamp, was the faded
races communicated with each other in the language of pantomime, and was mortified to find her shrugs and smiles so unintelligible. At length she returned with a lamp; and Archer, having meanwhile put together a phrase out of Dante and Petrarch, evoked the answer: \"La signora e fuori; ma verra subito\"; which he took to mean: \"She's out—but you'll soon see.\"
What he saw, meanwhile, with the help of the lamp, was the faded
