'Why did you not come to Cento Celli this morning?' asked the duke.
'I had another appointment,' Andrea replied without reflecting.
'At the Palazzo Barberini perhaps?' said the duke with a shy laugh, in which he was joined by the others.
'Perhaps.'
'Perhaps, indeed?—why, Ludovico saw you go in.'
'And where were you, may I ask?' said Andrea turning to Barbarisi.
'Over the way, at my Aunt Saviano's.'
'Ah!'
'I don't know if you had better luck than we had,' Beffi went on, 'but we had a run of forty-two minutes and got two foxes. The next meet is on Thursday at the Three Fountains.'
'You understand—at the Three Fountains, not at the Four,' Gino Bomminaco admonished him with comic gravity.