I'll attend to the rest--do you understand ?" Gustavo nodded with glistening eyes.

He had always felt stirring within him powers for diplomacy, for finesse, and he rose to the occasion magnificently.
Tony turned away and went bounding upstairs two steps at a time, chuckling as he went.

He, too, was developing an undreamed of appetite for intrigue, and his capacity in that direction was expanding to meet it.

He had covered the first flight, when Gustavo suddenly remembered the letter and bounded after.
"Signore! I beg of you to wait one moment.

Here is a letter from ze signorina; it is come while you are away." Tony read the address with a start of surprise.
"Then she knows!" There was regret, disillusionment, in his tone.
It was Gustavo's turn to furnish enlightenment.
"But no, signore, she do not comprehend.