"But you may look in through the door and see the sick man." "I have seen him through the window.

He looks very ill." "Ah, Signorina," sighed the youth, "if I were ill, I should pray the saints to send you--" He was interrupted by the arrival of the doctor, who asked him what was the matter, and was at once led in by him.

Regina withdrew to a little distance in the direction of the church and waited.

The doctor had come in a cab, and in a few moments she saw Marcello carried out and placed in it.

Then she walked as fast as she could towards the church, quite sure that the cab would stop at the door of the hospital, and anxious to be within sight of it.