"Are you a miller ?" The girl laughed.

She was a very good-humored girl, and did not appear to be displeased, though it certainly was not quite proper for Marco to speak in that manner to a stranger.

She did not, however, reply to his question, but said, after a pause, "Do you know where the Montpelier stage is ?" The proper English meaning of the word _stage_ is a _portion of the road_, traveled between one resting-place and another.

But in the United States it is used to mean the carriage,--being a sort of contraction for _stage-coach_.
"No," said Marco, "_we_ are going in that stage." "I wish it would come along," said the girl, "for I'm tired of watching my trunk." "Where is your trunk ?" said Marco.
So the girl pointed out her trunk.

It was upon the platform of the piazza, near those belonging to Forester and Marco.