He's clever always, but he goes round and round till I'm dizzy, for one, and don't know where I am.

I think somebody has tied him up to a post, leaving a tether.

Dearest Isa, the day before yesterday I had two letters from Madame M---- to ask us to take rooms.

He is coming directly to Rome.

She says he has much to tell me, and it's evident, of course, that an Italian senator, native to the Roman States, wouldn't come here just now without mission or permission.