Nino said he would wait for De Pretis, and immediately turned his whole attention to the foreign girl, hiding himself in the shadow and never taking his eyes from her.
I never saw Nino look at a woman before as though she interested him in the least, or I would not have been surprised now to see him lost in admiration of the fair girl.

I was close to him and could see his face, and it had a new expression on it that I did not know.

The people were almost gone and the lights were being extinguished when De Pretis came round the corner, looking for us.

But I was astonished to see him bow low to the foreigner and the young lady, and then stop and enter into conversation with them.

They spoke quite audibly, and it was about a lesson that the young lady had missed.