Here is your overcoat," he added, almost forcing his master into the garment--"and your hat--here! Come along, there is no time to lose.

I will take you to a place where you can dress." Del Ferice submitted almost blindly.

By especial good fortune the footman did not come out into the hall.

Donna Tullia and her guests had finished dinner, and the servants had retired to theirs; indeed the footman had complained to Temistocle of being called away from his meal to open the door.

The Neapolitan pushed his master out upon the stairs, urging him to use all speed.