Giu. Just so—we were just dressing. What’s the news?
Mar. The news is, that it is raining, and in this weather none of the ladies will be coming to our improvised party. We therefore thought of sending a carriage for them.
Giu. Well?
Mar. It’s not so well. A carriage is not so easily found in our village.
Giu. I understand. If it were a cart, now....
Mar. We found one, however; a fine, commodious coach, to hold six people——
Giu. An ark, in short—just the thing for this threatened universal deluge. Well, what then?
Mar. The worst is, we cannot get——
Giu. The horses?
Mar. Precisely. The owner sold them last week, to buy——