As I have given you my word that I would not go out of the door without your knowledge, I have been obliged to make my exit through the window.

Adieu! Till death thy faithful admirer.

COLOMAN." A couple of hours later Vamhidy learnt from the innkeeper that the manager, without any previous leave-taking, had decamped leaving behind him his decorations and theatrical wardrobe as some compensation for his trifling debts.

All he had taken away with him was what he actually had on his person--and Miss Palmira.
And now Szilard understood the meaning of the passage "there are obligations in respect to the discharge whereof I am not my sister's brother." This vagabond comedian had an equally vagabond childish ideal, and when he had to make his choice, he flung his arm around her and fled away with her--into the wide, wide world..