He obeyed her passively and was silent. They entered the inn on their way to the station, at the same time as the two English clergymen. Anna was frightened; she didn't care to talk of love to Giustino before such witnesses, but she looked at him with fond, supplicating eyes. The two clergymen seated themselves at the table which is always laid in the chief room of the inn, and while they ate their dinner one of them read his Bible, the other his Baedeker. The two lovers were near the window, looking through the glass at the road that leads to the station; and Anna was holding on to Giustino's arm, and he, confused, nervous, asked her if she would not like to dine, taking refuge from his embarrassment in the commonplace. "No; she did not wish to dine, she wasn't hungry. Afterwards, by-and-by." And her voice failed her as she looked at the two ecclesiastics.
"I wish——" she began, whispering into Giustino's ear.
"What do you wish?"
"Take me away somewhere else, where I can say something to you."
He hesitated; she blushed; then he left the room to speak to the landlord; returning presently, "Come," he said.
"Where are we going?"
"Upstairs."
"Upstairs?"
"You will see."