CHAPTER VII.
AN AUDIENCE WITH THE POPE.
On the following day came the audience with his Holiness, Pius the Ninth.
The Very Reverend Dean Szerenyi was first sent by the master of ceremonies to instruct the lawyer and his client in the details of their approaching interview.

This envoy even took pains to indicate in what sort of toilet ladies were expected to appear.

The gown must come up high about the neck and might be of any colour desired, or of black silk if the wearer was in mourning.

Jewelry was not forbidden.

A lackey in red livery would usher the strangers into the audience-chamber.