He said to himself, "I will soon be at Rome; the sooner the better now." After walking a good league, he came to a place where four ways met.

Being country roads, and serpentine, they had puzzled many an inexperienced neighbour passing from village to village.

Gerard took out a little dial Peter had given him, and set it in the autumn sun, and by this compass steered unhesitatingly for Rome inexperienced as a young swallow flying south; but unlike the swallow, wandering south alone..