"I expect to meet a friend here." Then he turned to Hedwig.

"Dear one," he said, "we are to have a companion now, who says he is a very proper person." "A companion ?" repeated Hedwig, anxiously.
"Yes.

We are to have the society of no less a person than the Professor Cornelio Grandi, of the University of Rome.

He will go with us, and be a witness." "Yes," said Hedwig, expecting more, "a witness--" "A witness of our marriage, dear lady; I trust to-morrow,--or to-day, since midnight is past." He leaned far over his saddle-bow, as the mules clambered up the rough place.

Her hand went out to him, and he took it.