There was no anxiety as to the date of their arrival; it was sufficient that they should be expected.

Inside Rome the companies which had been formed in connection with the new thoroughfares passing through the old, demolished, pestiferous districts, certainly sold or let their house property, and thereby realised large profits.

But, as the craze increased, other companies were established for the purpose of erecting yet more and more districts outside Rome--veritable little towns, of which there was no need whatever.

Beyond the Porta San Giovanni and the Porta San Lorenzo, suburbs sprang up as by miracle.

A town was sketched out over the vast estate of the Villa Ludovisi, from the Porta Pia to the Porta Salaria and even as far as Sant' Agnese.