You know how fond of each other we are, too, and I am sure he will be glad to see me.

He is back in Italy by this time.

He was going to Siena.

We were to have met in Rome in about a month, to go down to San Domenico together, but I will join him at once." "If you find that--that young person with him, what shall you do ?" "Send her about her business, of course," answered Folco promptly.
"Suppose that she will not go, what then ?" "It can only be a question of money, my dear lady.

Leave that to me.
Marcello is not the first young fellow who has been in a scrape!" Still Maddalena did not trust him, and she merely nodded with an air of doubt.
"Shall I not see Aurora ?" he asked suddenly.
"She is out," answered the Contessa.