"Yes! You and your companion will need to find a suitable lodging,
the first thing. We must see to it for you. But the fact is, Signora
Foscarelli, that I am more than usually busy this morning. I am
expecting some gentlemen here on business every minute. If you will
excuse me, therefore, I will entrust the commission of finding a
proper quartiere for you to my nephew. He will be more likely than I
am to know where what you require is likely to be found. He shall
call upon you this morning. Where are you? At the locanda de' Tre
Re! Very good. Of course you don't want to remain in an inn longer
than can be helped. I will tell my nephew to go to you this
morning."
So Signora Steno returned to the "Tre Re;" a little alarmed at the
thought that she had passed herself off for another person and a
somewhat different one, but charmed with the courtesy and kindness
of the Marchese. And in less than an hour the strangers from Venice
heard two voices below in the entrance of the locanda inquiring for
two Venetian ladies who had recently arrived in Ravenna.
Two voices!--for it had so happened that when the servant, whom the
Marchese Lamberto had sent to his nephew to request him to undertake
this little commission for him, found the Marchese Ludovico at the
door of the Circolo, the Signore Conte Leandro Lombardoni was
lounging there with him.
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