They may be here at any moment." "Come, girls," Polani said.
"And you, too," he went on, turning to the servants, whom the knocking had caused to assemble.

"Do you follow us.

Resistance would only cost you your lives.
"Here, Maria, take my hand.
"Francisco, do you see to Giulia.
"Close the door after the last of you, and bolt it.

It will give us a few minutes, before they break in and discover that we have all gone.
"Which way are the scoundrels coming ?" Francis pointed in the direction from which he had come, and the whole party started at a fast pace in the other direction.

They had not been gone five minutes, when a loud and sudden knocking broke on the silence of the night.
"It was a close thing, indeed, Francisco," the merchant said, as they ran along close to each other.