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Vere, too, noticed the variations of his demeanor.
"Gaspare was very 'jumpy' to-day in the boat," she said, one evening,
after returning from a sail; "I wonder what's the matter with him. Do
you think he can be in love, Madre?"
"I don't know. But he is /fidanzato/, Vere, with a girl in Marechiaro,
you remember?"
"Yes, but that lasts forever. When I speak of it he always says:
'There is plenty of time, Signorina. If one marries in a hurry, one
makes two faces ugly!' I should think the girl must be sick of
waiting."
Hermione was sure that there was some very definite reason for
Gaspare's curious behavior, but she could not imagine what it was.
That it was not anything to do with his health she had speedily
ascertained. Any small discipline of Providence in the guise of a cold
in the head, or a pain in the stomach, despatched him promptly to the
depths. But he had told her that he was perfectly well and "made of
iron," when she had questioned him on the subject.
She supposed time would elucidate the mystery, and meanwhile she knew
it was no use troubling about it.


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