Where did you part with the lady ?" persisted the lawyer, interested rather by the evident uneasiness of the Marchese Ludovico, than by any care how and in what company Bianca might have found her way back to the city.
"Well, that's just the curious part of the matter.

If you want to know how the thing happened, since you know so much already, walk with me to the Strada di Porta Sisi, and I will tell you how it happened.

At the ball we spoke of the Pineta,--she had never seen it,--asked me to show it to her.

In short, we agreed to start on leaving the ball, instead of going to bed.

I got a bagarino, and drove her to the farmhouse by the edge of the wood, just behind St.Apollinare; left the bagarino there, and strolled into the wood.