I thought your place was always there ?" said the Marchese.
"I'm no greater a supper-eater than another; let them say what they please.

But I have just been getting a glass of wine and a biscuit in the little supper-room at the further end there." "What, are there two supper-rooms?
I did not know that!" "Only a buffet in the little room at the end, where the papers generally are.

It was mainly Ludovico's doing,--in order to have less crowd in the supper-room,--and perhaps to have a quiet place for a tete-a-tete supper himself.

Oh! I knew better than not to clear out, when he and La Diva Bianca came in; specially as there was nobody else there.

Faith! I left them there alone together." "Oh! that's where he is supping, then ?" said the Marchese, in the most unconcerned tone he could manage.
"Yes; supping,--or enjoying himself in some other way, quite as delightful.