Perhaps you and Aunt Kate would rather visit your friends and meet me later in Munich.

If you decide to take the trip, you will have to come on down to Riva as soon as you get this letter, as we're planning to pull out Thursday morning.
"Sorry to hurry you, but you know my vacation doesn't last forever.
"Love to Aunt Kate and yourself, "Yours ever, "JERRY." He turned the letters over to Gustavo with a five-franc note, leaving Gustavo to decide with his own conscience whether the money was intended for himself or the steward of the Regina Margarita.

This accomplished, he slipped out unobtrusively and took the road toward Villa Rosa.
He strode along with his hands in his pockets and his eyes on the path until he nearly bumped his nose against the villa gate-post.

Then he stopped and thought.

He had no mind to be ushered to the terrace where he would have to dissemble some excuse for his visit before Miss Hazel and Mr.Wilder.His business tonight was with Constance, and Constance alone.
He turned and skirted the villa wall, determined on reconnoitering first.
There was a place in the wall--he knew well--where the stones were missing, and a view was obtainable of the terrace and parapet.
He reached the place to find Lieutenant Carlo di Ferara already there.
Now the Lieutenant's purpose was exactly as innocent as Tony's own; he merely wished to assure himself that Captain Coroloni was not before him.
It was considered a joke at the tenth cavalry mess to detail one or the other of the officers to call on the Americans at the same time that Lieutenant di Ferara called.