I have no doubt the girls are confined in that hut on San Nicolo.

I wonder I never thought of it before; but I made so sure that they would be taken somewhere close to where Mocenigo was staying, that it never occurred to me that they might hide them out there.

I ought to have known that that was just the thing they would do, for while the search would be keen among the islets near the land, and the villages there, no one would think of looking for them on the seaward islands.
"I have no doubt they are there now.

That woman came ashore to report to his friends, and that four-oared boat which has chased us was in waiting off Saint Mark's, to attack any boat that might be following them.
"We will go to Signor Polani at once and tell him what has happened.

I suppose it is about one o'clock now, but I have not noticed the hour.
It was past eleven before we first met the gondola, and we must have been a good deal more than an hour lying there waiting for them." A quarter of an hour's walking took them to the palazzo of Polani.