Yes?
Ah, how much better than the poor Italian! But Mistra and Madame Wick, they have not, I hope, the indisposition ?" "Well, I'm afraid they have, Count--something like that.

They said I was to ask you to excuse them.

You see they've been sight-seeing the whole morning, and that's something that can't be done by halves in your city.
The stranger has to put his whole soul into it, hasn't he ?" "Ah, the whole soul! It is too fatiguing," Count Filgiatti assented.

He glanced at me uncertainly, and rose.

"Kindly may I ask that you give my deepest afflictions to Mistra and Madame Wick for their health ?" "Oh," I said, "if you _must_! But I'm here, you know." I put no hauteur into my tone, because I saw that it was a misunderstanding.
He still hesitated and I remembered that the Filgiatti intelligence probably dated from the Middle Ages, and had undergone very little alteration since.