"It is well," said Piero, with a shrug, and they turned away from each other.
Baldassarre nodded, and turned in silent acceptance of the offer, and he and Piero left the church together.
However, Piero de' Medici wasn't come after all; and it was a pity; for we'd have left him neither legs nor wings to go away with again."
It was a marked day to Romola, for Piero di Cosimo, stimulated to greater industry on her behalf by the fear that he might have been the cause of pain to her in the past week, had sent home her father's portrait.