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"Are you really afraid I can't get home by
myself?" she asked, rising and putting on her
wrap. "Of course he will stay with you, Dr. Riccardo;
it's good for him to get a change. He doesn't go out
half enough."
"If you will allow me, I will see you home," the
Gadfly interposed; "I am going in that direction."
"If you really are going that way----"
"I suppose you won't have time to drop in here
in the course of the evening, will you, Rivarez?"
asked Riccardo, as he opened the door for them.
The Gadfly looked back over his shoulder,
laughing. "I, my dear fellow? I'm going to see
the variety show!"
"What a strange creature that is; and what an
odd affection for mountebanks!" said Riccardo,
coming back to his visitors.
"Case of a fellow-feeling, I should think," said
Martini; "the man's a mountebank himself, if ever
I saw one."
"I wish I could think he was only that," Fabrizi
interposed, with a grave face. "If he is a mountebank
I am afraid he's a very dangerous one.


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