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NE afternoon the yacht touched at Capri, and Norvell went ashore in the launch to bring back his sister and her luggage. Fen's excitement was divided between the prospect of Auntie's arrival and the wonder of the Bay of Naples. It lay vibrant blue under a clear, pale sky; far off, Vesuvius was shrouded with masses of smoke which seemed immovable. Around the bay swept the undulating coast-line of faintly violet cliffs, with the mountains rising behind, luminous and bright; and beneath all, the living sea, now vivid cobalt, now clear as liquid emerald. Right at hand, was Capri itself, its beetling cliffs clothed with olive-trees, and its strange white and rosy houses