I love you! And if you came with me, how could you expect me to help you keep your vows?
I am neither saint nor angel, but a mortal, and a sinful one." The poor girl sank speechless into a chair and hid her face in her hands.
"Hear me further, Princess," continued the other, with forced calmness.
"I have told you but one reason why I sought you here to-day.

The other was to show you a means of escape from this place, where you cannot remain in safety another day.

You must leave Rome this very night, and that will be no easy thing to accomplish now that all the gates are guarded.

But I have a plan.

Above all things, you must find a lady to take you under her protection, and that, I think, can be effected.
Citizen Scalcagnato issues all the passports for those that leave the city by the Colosseum gate.