He wished to see me once to say good-bye.

Was it _very_ wrong of me to let him come once,--just once ?" "It was perhaps natural.

And after Michael had said good-bye why did not he leave Rome ?" "He was arrested the same night," faltered Fay.

"I said good-bye to him in the garden, and then the garden was surrounded because they were looking for the murderer of the Marchese, and Michael could not get out.
And he was afraid of being seen for fear of compromising me.

So he hid behind the screen in my room.