And he was evidently relieved when the priest promised that he would see the girl, should she come back, and make her understand that she ought to remain at home.
"It was such a stupid affair!" the Prince repeated, with an exaggerated show of anger.

"Such things are not of our times." But all at once he ceased speaking, for Benedetta entered the room.

She sat down again beside her dear patient, and the sweet, peaceful evening then took its course in the old sleepy chamber, the old, lifeless palace, whence never a sound arose.
When Pierre began to go out again he at first merely took a brief airing in the district.

The Via Giulia interested him, for he knew how splendid it had been in the time of Julius II, who had dreamt of lining it with sumptuous palaces.

Horse and foot races then took place there during the carnival, the Palazzo Farnese being the starting-point, and the Piazza of St.Peter's the goal.