The atonement comes rather late, but is all the more honorable.

I should seem ungrateful, or even rancorous, were I to resist their importunities any longer." With a wave of his hand he warded off an eager but respectful enquiry which he saw taking shape upon his host's lips, and hastened to remark: "Well, Olivo, I am ready.

Show me your little kingdom." "Would it not be wiser," interposed Amalia, "to wait until it is cooler?
I am sure the Chevalier would prefer to rest for a while, or to stroll in the shade." Her eyes sought Casanova's with shy entreaty, as if she thought her fate would be decided once again during such a walk in the garden.
No one had anything to say against Amalia's suggestion, and they all went out of doors.

Marcolina, who led the way, ran across the sunlit greensward to join the children in their game of battledore and shuttlecock.

She was hardly taller than the eldest of the three girls; and when her hair came loose in the exercise and floated over her shoulders she too looked like a child.