We will go back to Milan.' Some hours necessarily elapsed before they could leave the hotel, by the first train in the forenoon.
In that interval, Mrs.Norbury's maid found an opportunity of confidentially informing the valet of what had passed between her mistress and herself.

The valet had other friends to whom he related the circumstances in his turn.

In due course of time, the narrative, passing from mouth to mouth, reached the ears of the manager.

He instantly saw that the credit of the hotel was in danger, unless something was done to retrieve the character of the room numbered Fourteen.

English travellers, well acquainted with the peerage of their native country, informed him that Henry Westwick and Mrs.Norbury were by no means the only members of the Montbarry family.