They decide not to tell anybody, even when they think that George is very rude. Lucy gets a letter-their friends Mr Vyse and his son Cecil are also in Italy, Rome. Lucy and Charlotte decide that the best what they can do, is to go to visit them, away from George.
The story moves to England, Lucy is now engagt with Cecil Vyse. Her mother is happy about it, but her brother Freddy and Mr Beebe aren´t really sure with this relationship. Lucy and Cecil have very different opinions. After a small garden party they go home and see two villas. They stop there and are told that one of the villas is ready for sale. Lucy have an idea- she writes to two old ladies who she met in Florence, to tell them, they could rent the villa. Later Lucy is told that the villa is already rent- Cecil has met by a chance two men and they are moving to their new home. Lucy is upset by Cecil´s behaviour. Freddy comes with news- some Emersons now live in the villa. Lucy is shocked, but it will be worst-her brother becomes a friend with George, so Lucy has to see him again. Like there was not enough these troubles, Charlotte is coming to stay for some time. Lucy talks to her, she says that George is living so near to her and that she is scared that Cecil will get know about the kiss. Charlotte asserts that she has not talk about it with anybody. The next day Freddy, his friend, George and Lucy play tennis and after it Cecil wants to read them from a book something, what he finds very silly. Lucy recognizes that it is Ms Lavishes book-there is the scene, where a boy is killed on the Piazza. But the next scene surprises her-it is about a girl between many violets kissing with a boy. Charlotte has told about it to Ms Lavish. Lucy wants to go home, so she goes with George and Cecil, but Cecil has forgotten the book so he has to go back for it. George says Lucy that he loves her and she should not marry Cecil. Then he kisses her again. She thinks he is very rude, but after she was thinking about everything, she cancels their engagement the same day. She feels like she has to go away, to escape. She hates George Emerson and wants to go to Greece. She meets the old Mr. Emerson, who talks to her and after that she discovers her true feelings. She knows she is in love with George from the beginning and now she can say it loud…
She goes back to Pension Bertolini, but this time she goes with George and feels happy again.

The book was written in 1908 and you can feel it.