Perhaps you would consent as it is.

We will vacate the castle for your benefit, and mount guard outside the gates all night." Again Corona blushed.

She would have given anything to go, but she felt that it was impossible.
"I would like to go," she said.

"If one could come back the same day." "You did before," remarked Saracinesca, bluntly.
"But it was late when I reached home, and I spent no time at all there." "I know you did not," laughed the old man.

"You gave Gigi Secchi some money, and then fled precipitately." "Indeed I was afraid you would suddenly come upon me, and I ran away," answered Corona, laughing in her turn, as the dark blood rose to her olive cheeks.
"As my amiable ancestors did in the same place when anybody passed with a full purse," suggested Saracinesca.