We don't get anywhere; we merely move in circles.

I don't think much of the guide you engaged.
He doesn't know his way.' 'He wasn't engaged to know his way,' Tony retorted.

'He was engaged to wear earrings and sing Santa Lucia.' Constance continued to sit on her rock while Tony went forward on a reconnoitring expedition.

He returned in ten minutes with the information that there was a shepherd's hut not very far off with a shepherd inside who would like to be friendly.

If the signorina would deign to ask some questions in the Italian language which she spoke so fluently, they could doubtless obtain directions as to the way home.
They found the shepherd, the shepherdess and four little shepherds eating their evening polenta in an earth-floored room, with half a dozen chickens and the family pig gathered about them in an expectant group.
They rose politely and invited the travellers to enter.