On prit la barque ordinaire de la maison pour aller à Côme ; en agir autrement eût été réveiller mille soupçons ; mais en arrivant au port de Côme la marquise se souvint qu’elle avait oublié à Grianta des papiers de la dernière importance : elle se hâta d’y envoyer les bateliers, et ces hommes ne purent faire aucune remarque sur la manière dont ces deux dames employaient leur temps à Côme.
They took the ordinary boat of the household to go to Como; to have acted otherwise would have aroused endless suspicions. But on arriving at the harbour of Como the Marchesa remembered that she had left behind at Grianta papers of the greatest importance: she hastened to send the boatmen back for them, and so these men could give no account of how the two ladies were spending their time at Como.