You may get to Cervia, too, that way.

But it is hardly likely that any one would leave the road to find a longer way by worse ways through the forest.

More likely the object of the Signor Marchese is only to show the lady the famous Pineta." Paolina, while the monk was thus speaking, had kept her eyes fixed upon the little carriage, which was making its way along a by-road constructed on the top of a dike by the side of one of the numerous streams that intersect all the district; and she continued to watch it till she saw it stop at the entrance to the yard of the little farmhouse, to which the monk had called her attention.

She then saw Ludovico and his companion descend from the carriage, and leave it apparently in the charge of a man, who came out from the farm-yard.

And they then left the spot where they had alighted on foot, and in another minute were no longer visible from the window at which Paolina and the monk stood.
"How long a walk is it, father, from here into the wood ?" asked Paolina, musingly.
"It is a very short distance, daughter.