"Do you know where your wife is now ?" she asked softly, and when the other shook his head, she went on: "You see, I don't lose sight of her so easily.

As for you, you could only shut her up in Rome and leave her there; but I knew how to go to work to rid ourselves of this obstruction.

The dogs of Jezebel were howling under her very windows, when there came a man blundering on to the scene and spoiled everything,--a man who is a man, who is more than a prince, a man from top to toe, in short, who carried off the woman from Rome.

I hoped they would take flight to some foreign land, whence we might have obtained an official announcement of her death.

Of course it might not have been true, but the fugitives would have changed their names, in all probability, and an official certificate would have answered our purpose.