Meanwhile, consider yourself fortunate.

If the Egyptian stops anywhere in Italy, it will be possible for you to reach him and bring him back within the time you mention.

Take heart, my friend.

Good-bye for the time.

I shall expect you early to-morrow." No sooner were we in the street than Simon began to ask me what he had told me, for I found that he was entirely ignorant of the things he had said.
"Who'd 'a thought it ?" he said musingly, when I had told him.