3 P.M
`` She 's merely full of intelligent curiosity , Mis ' Malt , '' said Mr. Malt , who seemed to be in the last stage of infatuated parent . `` I know you 'll excuse her , '' he added to momma , who said with rather frigid emphasis , `` Oh yes , we 'll excuse her . '' But the hint was lost and Emmeline remained . Poppa looked in his memorandum book and found that the Count was not to arrive until 3 P.M. . There was , therefore , no reason why we should not accompany the Malts to the Forum , and it was arranged . A quarter of an hour later we were rolling through Rome . As a family we were rather subdued by the idea that it was Rome , there was such immense significance even in the streets with tramways , though it was rather an atmosphere than anything of definite detail ; but no such impression weighed upon the Malts .