the knife. "It would be a scandal, and all the pickers would
say, 'Behold the mad English-Woman!'"

She looked up beseechingly at her mistress. She and Giacomo
never could tell beforehand which sentences the Signorina was
going to understand.

"Come with me!" coaxed the girl.

"But does the Signorina want to"--

"I want everything!" Daphne interrupted. "Grapes and flowers and
wine and air and sunshine. I want to see and feel and taste and
touch and smell everything there is. The days are too short to
take it all in. Hurry!"

As most of this outburst was in English, Assunta could do nothing
but look up with an air of deepened reproach. Daphne disappeared
from the railing, and a minute later was at Assunta's
side.

"Come, come, come!" she cried, pulling her by the lilac apron.
"Our time is brief, and we must gather rosebuds while we may. I
am young and you are old, and neither of us has any time to
lose."

Before she knew it, Assunta was trotting meekly down the road at
the young lady's heels, carrying a great flat basket for the
Signorina's use in picking grapes.