Sulkowski slackened the speed of his horse until Ludovici came up with him.
'If they guard the gate,' he said, 'we must use some precautions.'
'Your Excellency will wrap himself in the cloak and will follow me. It is true that they guard the gates, but they look for the equipages and retinue with which they expect you.'
'You said that they watch my house also?'
'Yes,' Ludovici answered.
'I must go there on foot and enter without being noticed.'
'I would not advise you to do that,' said Ludovici, 'in our times one cannot be sure of the servants, some of them might betray us.'
Sulkowski laughed bitterly.
'It is very amusing,' he said, 'who could have told me this morning that I should not be able to pass the night in safety in Dresden?'
He shrugged his shoulders.