In this he quite agreed with me, and on my informing him that M.de la Feste was at that moment with Caroline in the sacristy, he assented to my proposal that we should leave them to themselves, and return together to await them at the pension, where he had also engaged a room for me.

This we did, and going up to the chamber he had chosen for me, which overlooked the Canal, I leant from the window to watch for the gondola that should contain Charles and my sister.
They were not long in coming.

I recognized them by the colour of her sunshade as soon as they turned the bend on my right hand.

They were side by side of necessity, but there was no conversation between them, and I thought that she looked flushed and he pale.

When they were rowed in to the steps of our house he handed her up.