"Then you can go wherever you please," he added, turning round to me; "but take care not to again enter the lines of my army without a passport, or you might fare badly." I asked him to let me have the horse again, but he answered that the animal did not belong to me.

I forgot to ask him to send me back to the place I had come from, and I regretted it; but after all perhaps I did for the best.
The officer who accompanied me asked me, as we were passing a coffee-house, whether I would like to take some chocolate, and we went in.

At that moment I saw Petronio going by, and availing myself of a moment when the officer was talking to someone, I told him not to appear to be acquainted with me, but to tell me where he lived.

When we had taken our chocolate the officer paid and we went out.

Along the road we kept up the conversation; he told me his name, I gave him mine, and I explained how I found myself in Rimini.