It is provoking, for, if the Bretherton party are not going to stay long in Venice, we may easily spend all our time in looking for each other; which will, indeed, be a lame and impotent conclusion.

However, I have hopes of Paul's cleverness.
'And now, four o'clock! There is no help for it, my dear Eustace.

I must go and instruct Caterina how not to poison us in our dinner to-night.

She looks a dear old soul, but totally innocent of anything but Italian barbarities in the way of cooking.

And Felicie also is well-meaning but ignorant, so, unless I wish to have Paul on my hands for a week, I must be off.