And to tell you the truth, we have no idea where he is.

He came home early this morning after the ball, and instead of going to bed, changed his dress, and went out again at once; and has not been back since.

Some devilry or other! Che vuole! We were all young once upon a time, eh, Signora Orsola?
And as for the Marchesino, he is as good a gentleman as any in Ravenna or out of it, for that matter.

But he is young, Signora, he is young! And that's all the fault he has.

Can I give him any message for you, Signora ?" "The fact is," said old Orsola, after a few moments of rapid reflection as to the expediency of telling her trouble to the porter, and a decision prompted by the good-natured manner of the man, and by the poor woman's extreme need of some one to tell her trouble to,--"the fact is, that I wanted to ask the advice of the Signor Marchesino about a young friend of mine, the Signora Paolina Foscarelli, who went out of the city early this morning to go to St.Apollinare in Classe, and ought to have been back hours ago.