human
What! you not in the supper-room, Signor Leandro. I thought your place was always there?
gpt
I'm no greater a supper-eater than another; let them say what they please. But I have just been getting a glass of wine and a biscuit in the little supper-room at the further end there.
human
What, are there two supper-rooms? I did not know that!
gpt
Only a buffet in the little room at the end, where the papers generally are. It was mainly Ludovico's doing,--in order to have less crowd in the supper-room,--and perhaps to have a quiet place for a tete-a-tete supper himself. Oh! I knew better than not to clear out, when he and La Diva Bianca came in; specially as there was nobody else there. Faith! I left them there alone together.
human
Oh! that's where he is supping, then?
gpt
Yes; supping,--or enjoying himself in some other way, quite as delightful. The fact is, Signor Marchese, continued the poet, in a lowered voice, and rapidly glancing around to see that there were no ears within such a distance as to overhear his words,--
human
How should I know!
gpt
He is off at six o'clock to-morrow morning tete-a-tete with La Bianca, on an excursion to the Pineta. Coming it strong, isn't it?
human
To-morrow morning!
gpt
Niente meno! I heard them arrange it all. He is to slip away from the ball presently, in order to make all needful preparations, and to be at her door with a bagarino at six o'clock in the morning. Doing the thing nicely, isn't it?