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And this she never was when bathing, for
Hermione had exacted a promise from her not to go to bathe without
Gaspare. In former days Vere had once or twice begun to protest
against this prohibition, but something in her mother's eyes had
stopped her. And she had remembered:
"Father was drowned in the sea."
Then, understanding something of what was in her mother's heart, she
threw eager arms about her, and anxiously promised to be good.
One afternoon of the summer, towards the middle of June, she prolonged
her bathe in the Grotto of Virgil until Gaspare used his authority,
and insisted on her coming out of the water.
"One minute more, Gaspare! Only another minute!"
"Ma Signorina!"
She dived. She came up.
"Ma veramente Signorina!"
She dived again.
Gaspare waited. He was standing up in the boat with the oars in his
hands, ready to make a dash at his Padroncina directly she reappeared,
but she was wily, and came up behind the boat with a shrill cry that
startled him.


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