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āItās going round at night,ā said Randolphāāthatās what made her sick. Sheās always going round at night. I shouldnāt think sheād want to, itās so plaguy dark. You canāt see anything here at night, except when thereās a moon. In America thereās always a moon!ā Mrs. Miller was invisible; she was now, at least, giving her daughter the advantage of her society. It was evident that Daisy was dangerously ill.
Winterbourne went often to ask for news of her, and once he saw Mrs. Miller, who, though deeply alarmed, was, rather to his surprise, perfectly composed, and, as it appeared, a most efficient and judicious nurse. She talked a good deal about Dr. Davis, but Winterbourne paid her the compliment of saying to himself that she was not, after all, such a monstrous goose. āDaisy spoke of you the other day,ā she said to him. āHalf the time she doesnāt know what sheās saying, but that time I think she did. She gave me a message she told me to tell you. She told me to tell you that she never was engaged to that handsome Italian. I am sure I am very glad; Mr. Giovanelli hasnāt been near us since she was taken ill. I thought he was so much of a gentleman; but I donāt call that very polite! A lady told me that he was afraid I was angry with him for taking Daisy round at night. Well, so I am, but I suppose he knows Iām a lady. I would scorn to scold him. Anyway, she says sheās not engaged. I donāt know why she wanted you to know, but she said to me three times, āMind you tell Mr. Winterbourne.ā And then she told me to ask if you remembered the time you went to that castle in Switzerland. But I said I wouldnāt give any such messages as that. Only, if she is not engaged, Iām sure Iām glad to know it.ā
But, as Winterbourne had said, it mattered very little. A week after this, the poor girl died; it had been a terrible case of the fever. Daisyās grave was in the little Protestant cemetery, in an angle of the wall of imperial Rome, beneath the cypresses and the thick spring flowers. Winterbourne stood there beside it, with a number of other mourners, a number larger than the scandal excited by the young ladyās career would have led you to expect. Near him stood Giovanelli, who came nearer still before Winterbourne turned away. Giovanelli was very pale: on this occasion he had no flower in his buttonhole; he seemed to wish to say something. At last he said, āShe was the most beautiful young lady I ever saw, and the most amiable;ā and then he added in a moment, āand she was the most innocent.ā
Winterbourne looked at him and presently repeated his words, āAnd the most innocent?ā
āThe most innocent!ā
Winterbourne felt sore and angry. āWhy the devil,ā he asked, ādid you take her to that fatal place?ā
Mr. Giovanelliās urbanity was apparently imperturbable. He looked on the ground a moment, and then he said, āFor myself I had no fear; and she wanted to go.ā
āThat was no reason!ā Winterbourne declared.
The subtle Roman again dropped his eyes. āIf she had lived, I should have got nothing. She would never have married me, I am sure.ā
āShe would never have married you?ā
āFor a moment I hoped so. But no. I am sure.ā
Winterbourne listened to him: he stood staring at the raw protuberance among the April daisies. When he turned away again, Mr. Giovanelli, with his light, slow step, had retired.
Winterbourne almost immediately left Rome; but the following summer he again met his aunt, Mrs. Costello at Vevey. Mrs. Costello was fond of Vevey. In the interval Winterbourne had often thought of Daisy Miller and her mystifying manners. One day he spoke of her to his auntāsaid it was on his conscience that he had done her injustice.
āI am sure I donāt know,ā said Mrs. Costello. āHow did your injustice affect her?ā
āShe sent me a message before her death which I didnāt understand at the time; but I have understood it since. She would have appreciated oneās esteem.ā
āIs that a modest way,ā asked Mrs. Costello, āof saying that she would have reciprocated oneās affection?ā
Winterbourne offered no answer to this question; but he presently said, āYou were right in that remark that you made last summer. I was booked to make a mistake. I have lived too long in foreign parts.ā
Nevertheless, he went back to live at Geneva, whence there continue to come the most contradictory accounts of his motives of sojourn: a report that he is āstudyingā hardāan intimation that he is much interested in a very clever foreign lady.
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