Daisy Miller — книга для чтения (B1)

very distinctly, at last, in her telling him she would stop ‘teasing’ him if he would promise her solemnly to come down to Rome in the winter. ‘That’s not a difficult promise to make,’ said Winterbourne. ‘My aunt has taken an apartment in Rome for the winter, and has already asked me to come and see her.’ ‘I don’t want you to come for your aunt,’ said Daisy; ‘I want you to come for me.’ And this was the only allusion that the young man was ever to hear her make to his invidious kinswoman. He declared that, at any rate, he would certainly come. After this Daisy stopped teasing. Winterbourne took a carriage, and they drove back to Vevey in the dusk; the young girl was very quiet. In the evening Winterbourne mentioned to Mrs Costello that he had spent the afternoon at Chillon, with Miss Daisy Miller. ‘The Americansof the courier?’ asked this lady. ‘Ah, happily,’ said Winterbourne, ‘the courier stayed at home.’ ‘She went with you all alone?’ ‘All alone.’ Mrs Costello sniffed a little at her smelling-bottle. ‘And that,’ she exclaimed, ‘is the young person you wanted me to know!’