It arrives when God and the driver wills.' 'In that case,' she laughed, 'we will accommodate ourselves until after supper--and we have appetites! Please bring everything you have.' They supped on _minestra_ and _fritto misto_ washed down with the red wine of Grotta del Monte, which, their host assured them, was famous through all the country.

He could not believe that they had never heard of it in Valedolmo.

People sent for it from far off, even from Verona.
They finished their supper and the famous wine, but there was still no diligence.

The village also had finished its supper and was drifting in family groups into the piazza.

The moon was just showing above the house-tops, and its light, combined with the blazing braziers before the cook-shops, made the square a patchwork of brilliant high-lights and black shadows from deep-cut doorways.