There, in exchange for your cloak, I shall have the pleasure of handing you the two thousand gold pieces without further delay.

First of all, as a token of confidence; and secondly because I really do not know what I should do with the money during the night." They parted without further formality.

Lorenzi returned to the house by the path along which they had both come.

Casanova made his way to the village by a different route.

At the inn there, by paying a considerable sum as earnest money, he was able to arrange for a carriage to await him at ten o'clock that evening for the drive from Olivo's house into Mantua..