And came by dark to Asti; there we changed

Both horses and postilions and drove on:

And after three hours’jolting, when I guessed

We should be nearing Milan, the coach stopped

In a ferny glade, and we got out; and then

I saw we were at Belflor, and the trees

Were in your ladyship’s park.

D.Ah! Then what did he?

T. Came in and locked the gate of the park behind us,

And sent me on to his room, and bade me wait