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1"I had not the least idea I was pensive," said the young man. "You are very much preoccupied; you are thinking of
2something." "And what is it," he asked, "that you accuse me of thinking of?" "Of that young lady's--Miss Baker's, Miss
3Chandler's--what's her name?--Miss Miller's intrigue with that little barber's block." "Do you call it an intrigue,"
4Winterbourne asked--"an affair that goes on with such peculiar publicity?" "That's their folly," said Mrs. Costello;
5"it's not their merit." "No," rejoined Winterbourne, with something of that pensiveness to which his aunt had alluded.
6"I don't believe that there is anything to be called an intrigue." "I have heard a dozen people speak of it; they say
7she is quite carried away by him." "They are certainly very intimate," said Winterbourne. Mrs. Costello inspected the
8young couple again with her optical instrument. "He is very handsome. One easily sees how it is. She thinks him the most
9elegant man in the world, the finest gentleman. She has never seen anything like him; he is better, even, than the
10courier. It was the courier probably who introduced him; and if he succeeds in marrying the young lady, the courier will
11come in for a magnificent commission." "I don't believe she thinks of marrying him," said Winterbourne, "and I don't
12believe he hopes to marry her." "You may be very sure she thinks of nothing. She goes on from day to day, from hour to
13hour, as they did in the Golden Age. I can imagine nothing more vulgar. And at the same time," added Mrs. Costello,
14"depend upon it that she may tell you any moment that she is 'engaged.'" "I think that is more than Giovanelli expects,"
15said Winterbourne. "Who is Giovanelli?" "The little Italian. I have asked questions about him and learned something. He
16is apparently a perfectly respectable little man. I believe he is, in a small way, a cavaliere avvocato. But he doesn't
17move in what are called the first circles. I think it is really not absolutely impossible that the courier introduced
18him. He is evidently immensely charmed with Miss Miller. If she thinks him the finest gentleman in the world, he, on his
19side, has never found himself in personal contact with such splendor, such opulence, such expensiveness as this young
20lady's. And then she must seem to him wonderfully pretty and interesting. I rather doubt that he dreams of marrying her.
21That must appear to him too impossible a piece of luck. He has nothing but his handsome face to offer, and there is a
22substantial Mr. Miller in that mysterious land of dollars. Giovanelli knows that he hasn't a title to offer. If he were
23only a count or a marchese! He must wonder at his luck, at the way they have taken him up." "He accounts for it by his
24handsome face and thinks Miss Miller a young lady qui se passe ses fantaisies!" said Mrs. Costello. "It is very true,"
25Winterbourne pursued, "that Daisy and her mamma have not yet risen to that stage of--what shall I call it?--of culture
26at which the idea of catching a count or a marchese begins. I believe that they are intellectually incapable of that
27conception." "Ah! but the avvocato can't believe it," said Mrs. Costello. Of the observation excited by Daisy's
28"intrigue," Winterbourne gathered that day at St. Peter's sufficient evidence. A dozen of the American colonists in Rome
29came to talk with Mrs. Costello, who sat on a little portable stool at the base of one of the great pilasters. The
30vesper service was going forward in splendid chants and organ tones in the adjacent choir, and meanwhile, between Mrs.
31Costello and her friends, there was a great deal said about poor little Miss Miller's going really "too far."
32Winterbourne was not pleased with what he heard, but when, coming out upon the great steps of the church, he saw Daisy,
33who had emerged before him, get into an open cab with her accomplice and roll away through the cynical streets of Rome,
34he could not deny to himself that she was going very far indeed. He felt very sorry for her--not exactly that he
35believed that she had completely lost her head, but because it was painful to hear so much that was pretty, and
36undefended, and natural assigned to a vulgar place among the categories of disorder. He made an attempt after this to
37give a hint to Mrs. Miller. He met one day in the Corso a friend, a tourist like himself, who had just come out of the
38Doria Palace, where he had been walking through the beautiful gallery. His friend talked for a moment about the superb
39portrait of Innocent X by Velasquez which hangs in one of the cabinets of the palace, and then said, "And in the same
40cabinet, by the way, I had the pleasure of contemplating a picture of a different kind--that pretty American girl whom
41you pointed out to me last week." In answer to Winterbourne's inquiries, his friend narrated that the pretty American
42girl--prettier than ever--was seated with a companion in the secluded nook in which the great papal portrait was
43enshrined. "Who was her companion?" asked Winterbourne. "A little Italian with a bouquet in his buttonhole. The girl is
44delightfully pretty, but I thought I understood from you the other day that she was a young lady du meilleur monde." "So
45she is!" answered Winterbourne; and having assured himself that his informant had seen Daisy and her companion but five
46minutes before, he jumped into a cab and went to call on Mrs. Miller. She was at home; but she apologized to him for
47receiving him in Daisy's absence. "She's gone out somewhere with Mr. Giovanelli," said Mrs. Miller. "She's always going
48round with Mr. Giovanelli." "I have noticed that they are very intimate," Winterbourne observed. "Oh, it seems as if
49they couldn't live without each other!" said Mrs. Miller. "Well, he's a real gentleman, anyhow. I keep telling Daisy
50she's engaged!" "And what does Daisy say?" "Oh, she says she isn't engaged. But she might as well be!" this impartial
51parent resumed; "she goes on as if she was. But I've made Mr. Giovanelli promise to tell me, if SHE doesn't. I should
52want to write to Mr. Miller about it--shouldn't you?" Winterbourne replied that he certainly should; and the state of
53mind of Daisy's mamma struck him as so unprecedented in the annals of parental vigilance that he gave up as utterly
54irrelevant the attempt to place her upon her guard. After this Daisy was never at home, and Winterbourne ceased to meet
55her at the houses of their common acquaintances, because, as he perceived, these shrewd people had quite made up their
56minds that she was going too far. They ceased to invite her; and they intimated that they desired to express to
57observant Europeans the great truth that, though Miss Daisy Miller was a young American lady, her behavior was not
58representative--was regarded by her compatriots as abnormal. Winterbourne wondered how she felt about all the cold
59shoulders that were turned toward her, and sometimes it annoyed him to suspect that she did not feel at all. He said to
60himself that she was too light and childish, too uncultivated and unreasoning, too provincial, to have reflected upon
61her ostracism, or even to have perceived it. Then at other moments he believed that she carried about in her elegant and
62irresponsible little organism a defiant, passionate, perfectly observant consciousness of the impression she produced.
63He asked himself whether Daisy's defiance came from the consciousness of innocence, or from her being, essentially, a
64young person of the reckless class. It must be admitted that holding one's self to a belief in Daisy's "innocence" came
65to seem to Winterbourne more and more a matter of fine-spun gallantry. As I have already had occasion to relate, he was
66angry at finding himself reduced to chopping logic about this young lady; he was vexed at his want of instinctive
67certitude as to how far her eccentricities were generic, national, and how far they were personal. From either view of
68them he had somehow missed her, and now it was too late. She was "carried away" by Mr. Giovanelli.
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