The keeper hailed him, and put the question.
Seeing Corona upon her mule, surrounded by armed men in livery, the man halted, and pulled off his soft black-cloth hat.
Both the princes were in Saracinesca, he said.

The young prince had been there ever since Easter.

They were busy building an aqueduct which was to supply the whole town with water; it was to pass above, up there among the woods.

The princes went almost every day to visit the works.

Her Excellency might, perhaps, find them there now, or if not, they were at the castle.
But her Excellency had no intention of finding them.