Lorenzi, meanwhile, kept on running up the stairs, flight after flight, but was never able to overtake you.

He wanted you because you had forgotten to give him a gratuity....." "What next ?" enquired Casanova, when Amalia paused.
"There was a great deal more, but I have forgotten," said Amalia.
Casanova was disappointed.

In such cases, whether he was relating a dream or giving an account of real incidents, it was his way to round off the narrative, attempting to convey a meaning.

He remarked discontentedly: "How strangely everything is distorted in dreams.

Fancy, that I should be wealthy; and that Lorenzi should be a beggar, and old!" "As far as Lorenzi is concerned," interjected Olivo, "there is not much wealth about him.