“Pardon me,” said Rita at last. “Who is it we are talking about? Lucrezia Bori, the opera singer, the Duchess of Ferrara, Lucrezia Borgia, or Catherine de’ Medici?” “I too often get the two of them mixed up,” said the poor sweating engineer. “But not the three,” said Rita. Why did she have to be cruel, though? The engineer sat between the two, transfixed by a not altogether unpleasant horribleness.
