She was not especially my companion in any part of our walk.

The last I saw of her she was hastening back to rejoin you in the courtyard of the Palazzo Caffarelli." "Impossible!" cried Miriam, starting.
"Then did you not see her again ?" inquired Kenyon, in some alarm.
"Not there," answered Miriam quietly; "indeed, I followed pretty closely on the heels of the rest of the party.

But do not be alarmed on Hilda's account; the Virgin is bound to watch over the good child, for the sake of the piety with which she keeps the lamp alight at her shrine.

And besides, I have always felt that Hilda is just as safe in these evil streets of Rome as her white doves when they fly downwards from the tower top, and run to and fro among the horses' feet.

There is certainly a providence on purpose for Hilda, if for no other human creature." "I religiously believe it," rejoined the sculptor; "and yet my mind would be the easier, if I knew that she had returned safely to her tower." "Then make yourself quite easy," answered Miriam.