The Marchesa Belloni’s boarding-house wassituated in one of the healthiest, if not one of the most romanticquarters of Rome. One half of the house had formed part of a villino of the old Ludovisi Gardens, those beautiful oldgardens regretted by everybody who knew them before the newbarrack-quarters were built on the site of the old Roman park, with itsborder of villas. The entrance to the pension was in the ViaLombardia. The older or villino portion of the houseretained a certain antique charm for the marchesa’s boarders,while the new premises built on to it offered the advantages ofspacious rooms, modern sanitation and electric light. Thepension boasted a certain reputation for comfort, cheapness anda pleasant situation: it stood at a few minutes’ walk from thePincio, on high ground, and there was no need to fear malaria; and theprice charged for a long stay, amounting to hardly more than eightlire, was exceptionally low for Rome, which was known to be moreexpensive than a

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