There is a footpath practicable in dry weather like this, a good deal nearer than the road we saw the bagarino follow.

You might get to the edge of the Pineta in that way in less than ten minutes." "And would it be possible to return to the city that way, instead of coming back to the road ?" enquired Paolina.
"Yes; for a part of the way there is a path along the border of the wood.

Then you must fall back into the road.

The way lies by the gate of the farm-house." "I think I will go back to the city now, father.

This scaffold is just where it will suit me.