"If you will excuse me a moment I will send my horse home--I will join you at once." "There is your horse--right before us," said Madame Mayer.

Even that short respite was not allowed him, and she waited while Don Giovanni ordered the astonished groom to take his hunter for an hour's exercise in a direction where he would not fall in with the hounds.
"I did not believe you would really do it," said Donna Tullia, as the two turned and sauntered back towards the carriages.

Most of the men who meant to follow had already mounted, and the little crowd had thinned considerably.

But while they had been talking another carriage had driven into the field, and had halted a few yards from Valdarno's drag.
Astrardente had taken it into his head to come to the meet with his wife, and they had arrived late.

Astrardente always arrived a little late, on principle.