The man understood Italian, I remember; he wanted awfully to work off his bowl.

But I didn't believe in it, and we didn't take it." Maggie had listened with an interest that wore all the expression of candour.

"Oh, you left it for me.

But what did you take ?" He looked at her; first as if he were trying to remember, then as if he might have been trying to forget.

"Nothing, I think--at that place." "What did you take then at any other?
What did you get me--since that was your aim and end--for a wedding-gift ?" The Prince continued very nobly to bethink himself.