Come with me, Monsieur l'Abbe.

He mustn't get ill if he is to take us for a drive!" Then, meeting Victorine on the stairs, she bade her follow.

"Dario isn't well," she said.

"You may be wanted." They all four entered the spacious, antiquated, and simply furnished bed-room where the young Prince had lately been laid up for a whole month.

It was reached by way of a small _salon_, and from an adjoining dressing-room a passage conducted to the Cardinal's apartments, the relatively small dining-room, bed-room, and study, which had been devised by subdividing one of the huge galleries of former days.