human
Where am I--what has happened?
gpt
You must take another draught before I am at liberty to tell you anything, my dear signora, answered Marianna, bringing her the goblet which Paolo had sent. She drank the cooling mixture, and it served still further to revive her.
human
Now let me arrange your pillows, and I will tell you all you want to know, said the faithful girl, arranging her couch.
gpt
There, now you are comfortable! Well, first, we are with very kind, considerate people, who do everything I wish; and we are as safe as we can be on board ship--though I wish ships had never been invented; then we are going to a very beautiful place--though, when we are to get there depends on the wind and other circumstances, which I am not clever enough to explain.
human
Where is my uncle? Is he on board? Why does he not come to me?
gpt
Ah! there are some little mysteries which I cannot explain just now, and that is one of them, promptly returned Marianna.
human
The signor colonel is not on board the ship, nor is the good Captain Bowse--they all went away in the other one; and we--that we might be much safer--we came on board this one. Here we are, and here we must remain, till you, my dear signora, can get well enough to go on shore; but there is no hurry, for we could not be better off than we are now. So, as you have asked a great many questions, which your doctor said that if you did I was not to answer, yet I have done so, you must try and go fast asleep again, and forget all about it.