What do you say to ten o'clock ?" Before answering him the Contessina turned towards her aunt and respectfully opposed her views.

"But Monsieur l'Abbe, aunt, has met enough beggars in our streets already, so he may well see everything.
Besides, judging by his book, he won't see worse things than he has seen in Paris.

As he says in one passage, hunger is the same all the world over." Then, with her sensible air, she gently laid siege to Dario.

"You know, Dario," said she, "you would please me very much by taking me there.

We can go in the carriage and join these gentlemen.