"You would be stopped."
"Confound it, that is very annoying, not that I have any intention of going out, but as by my character, I am very fond of doing things which are prohibited—"
"You would like to take a walk, I suppose, Excellency?"
Don Sancho looked at Birbomono, as if trying to read his thoughts.
"And suppose such were my intention?" he resumed presently.
"I would undertake to get you out."
"You?"
"Yes, I; am I not the Major-domo of the hatto?"
"That is true; thus, the prohibition does not extend to you?"
"To me, as to the rest, Excellency; but the soldiers do not know the hatto as I know; I could Slip between their fingers, whenever I liked."