"The problem is solved!" cried Cesare Dias.
"And the entr'acte is over; everything in its time. Good evening, good evening; good-bye, Cesare," said Luigi.
So Caracciolo took his leave, very correctly, without shaking hands with Dias. Dias had risen, but Luigi seemed to understand that he meant to stay in the girls' box.
Anna, who had been looking up anxiously, waiting, looked down again now, reassured. The door closed noiselessly upon the young man.
"A pleasant fellow," observed Cesare Dias.
"Very pleasant," agreed Stella Martini, for politeness' sake, or perhaps because she desired to state her opinion.
"In my quality of centenarian I feel at liberty to stop where I am," said Cesare Dias, reseating himself behind Anna, while beside him, behind Laura, sat Stella Martini.
"You won't get a good view of the stage from there," said Stella.
"I don't care to see. It will be enough to hear it, this fourth act."