He waited a long time.

The front door was opened and two men came out with brooms and began to sweep.

When they saw him they were for making him go away, but he cried out that he was waiting for the Signor Giovanni, to show him how a free glass-blower's son had been treated by a dog of a foreigner and a swine of a porter over there in the glass-house.

Then the servants let him stay, for they feared the porter and hated Zorzi for being a Dalmatian.
At last Giovanni came out, and the boy at once uttered a particularly effective moan.

Giovanni stopped and looked at him, and he gulped and sobbed vigorously.
"Get up and go away at once!" said Giovanni, much disgusted by the sight of the blood.
"I will not go till you hear me, sir," answered the boy dramatically.