Aurora begged her mother to speak to Corbario about it.

With his experience and knowledge of things he would know what to do; he could find some way of tracing the vessel, wherever she might be.
The Contessa was convinced that the girl's theory was utterly untenable, and it was only to please her that she promised to speak of it if she saw Corbario again.

Soon afterward she decided to leave Rome for the summer, and before going away she went once more to the villa.

It was now late in June, and she found Folco in the garden late in the afternoon.
He looked ill and tired, but she thought him a little less thin than when she had seen him last.

He said that he, too, meant to leave Rome within a few days, that he intended to go northward first to see an old friend of his who had recently returned from South America, and that he should afterwards go down to Calabria, to San Domenico, and spend the autumn there.