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In those days it was almost the only one of its kind , and was patronized alike by Romans and foreigners . Even Donna Francesca Campodonico went there from time to time for a book on art or an engraving which she and Reanda needed for their work . They occasionally walked all the way from the Palazzetto Borgia to the Piazza di Spagna together in the morning . When they had found what they wanted , Donna Francesca generally drove home in a cab , and Reanda went to his midday meal before returning . For the line of his intimacy with her was drawn at this point . He had never sat down at the same table with her , and he never expected to do so . As the two stood to one another at present , though Francesca would willingly have asked him to breakfast , she would have hesitated to do so , merely because the first invitation would inevitably call attention to the fact that the line had been drawn somewhere , whereas both were willing to believe that it had never existed at all .