Now, what are your plans ?' 'My plans are to leave this early to-morrow, so as to rest during the hot hours of the day, and reach Dublin by nightfall.

Why do you smile ?' 'I smile at your notion of climate; but I never knew any man who had been once in Italy able to disabuse himself of the idea that there were three or four hours every summer day to be passed with closed shutters and iced drinks.' 'Well, I believe I was thinking of a fiercer sun and a hotter soil than these.

To return to my project: we can find means of posting, carriage and horses, in the village.

I forget its name.' 'I'll take care of all that.

At what hour will you start ?' 'I should say by six or seven.