I forgot to ask him afterwards.

Very likely he thought it a fine joke to see his master hunting a truant servant and a truant bag through the streets in broad daylight.

Had he known the truth, he would have been as interested, though, maybe, less amused.
I arrived at the town of Zenda at half-past three, and was in the castle before four.

I may pass over the most kind and gracious words with which the queen received me.

Every sight of her face and every sound of her voice bound a man closer to her service, and now she made me feel that I was a poor fellow to have lost her letter and yet to be alive.