"I might send her to my sister," Mr. Osmond observed. He had almost the air of asking advice; he seemed to like to talk over his domestic matters with Miss Archer.
"Yes," she concurred; "I think that wouldn＇t do much towards making her resemble me!"
After she had left Florence Gilbert Osmond met Madame Merle at the Countess Gemini＇s. There were other people present; the Countess＇s drawing-room was usually well 昀lled, and the talk had been general,but after a while Osmond left his place and came and sat on an ottoman half-behind, half-beside Madame Merle＇s chair. "She wants me to go to Rome with her," he remarked in a low voice.