Excerpt from The Mosaic-Worker's Daughter, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel

"Only three weeks yet in Rome, and two invitations to balls already!"

"Yes!" said Helen Sandford, to her friend and cousin Margaret Osborne, "everybody says that we are to have a gayer season than ever, this winter."

"But as to these Roman balls themselves, " asked Margaret, "I cannot understand what sort of affairs they can possibly be."

"Why so?" asked her cousin.

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