Mann, if you could have
seen Talila--she's dreadful."
"Who is Talila? and what has she to do with your soul?"
"O, she's one of those Sorrento people," replied Mae, as if she had
lived there for years. "I have so much to tell you: it will take--"
"Years, I hope, dear." The last word dropped without his noticing it,
but Mae caught it and hid it in her heart.
"What made you think of coming for me?" she asked, after a pause, during
which Norman had hummed a song as she had been writing her name on the
sand. They were quite on the shore and only a narrow stretch of beach
separated them from the bay. "You said if you ever came away, you would
go to Sorrento, and I knew you had a friend in the kitchen who lived
near Naples. So I searched for her and the padrona, and, finding neither
of them, set Giovanni a babbling, and learned that the woman Lisetta had
left that morning for Sorrento. I told the boys I had a mere suspicion
that I would trace for them. So off I came last night, and by stopping
and enquiring at every settlement, at last discovered you.
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