And they were very sure that she had not returned to the city since, at least by that gate.
But one of the officers volunteered the information that another young lady had that morning passed out of the city on foot a little before the time at which the bagarino had passed with the Marchese and the prima donna.

And the men, after some consultation together, were sure that neither had that young lady returned by the gate they guarded.
Ludovico looked at the lawyer, and the lawyer looked at Ludovico; but neither of them could suggest anything in explanation of so strange a circumstance.
"I saw nothing of any such person either in the Pineta or on the road," said Ludovico.

"Who could it have been ?" The old lawyer only shrugged his shoulders in reply "There is a young lady," resumed Ludovico, after some minutes of thought, "a friend of mine--a young artist engaged in making copies from the mosaics in our churches.

I know that it was her purpose shortly to begin some work of this kind at St.Apollinare in Classe.

It may be that she had selected this morning for the purpose of going out to look at her task,--though I almost think that I should have been informed of her intention." "The plot seems to thicken with a vengeance," said the lawyer, with an impatient shrug, and a slight sneer of ill-humour, provoked by the multiplicity of his young client's lady friends.