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She would not suppose it , and , indeed , nothing that Mamie had said could lead her to think that he was a friend of the family . They had clutched at him greedily , and he had repaid with an impertinence . That was all . The third footman , whose duty it was to attend upon her , brought two covered dishes on a tray at eight o'clock , and soon after nine he came again to fetch her . There was a superabundance of gorgeous lackeys in the corridors that had been dusty and deserted five years before , and a gigantic _ Suisse _ stood always on guard now outside the palace gates . The Marchesa would have liked to have had outriders in her scarlet livery when she went out driving in the streets of Florence , but her husband warned her that some mad anarchist might take her for the Queen , and so she contented herself with a red racing motor . The millions old Whittaker had made availed to keep his widow and the man who had given her a title in almost regal state .