“It’s awfully interesting to see something Roman that’snotin a Museum,” observed Betty. “And now I can so easily imagine the sort of villa that was here,” she added. “It had gardens round it where all these houses go down to the river, and the people who lived in it, saw only fields and forests, and swampy land where now there are miles and miles ofstreets and London houses. Oh, itiswonderful to think about!”
But Godmother was again consulting her watch, and in a moment or two Betty was being driven in the car back to her home in Chelsea.