Oh, of course he thought of nothing else.

As to lessons, there was an absolute absence of wits.

All Florence being turned out into the streets in one gigantic pantomime, one couldn't expect people to be wiser indoors than out.

For my part, the universal madness reached me sitting by the fire (whence I had not stirred for three months); and you will open your eyes when I tell you that I went (in domino and masked) to the great opera ball.

Yes, I did really.