“Where?”
“To the Granja palace, to commence thy practice as a physician.”
“But whom do we go to see there?”
“The ex-king, Philip V.”
“What! Is Philip to die?”
“Not yet; he must return, and reign again; and thou goest to offer him the crown.”
Tito bowed his head, crushed beneath the weight of so many new ideas.
Death took his arm and led him from the inn. They had not reached the door when they heard cries and lamentations behind them.
The proprietor of the house was dead.