The “Piedmontese” (as the Prince continued to call them for reassurance, just as others called them “Garibaldini” in exaltation or “Garibaldeschi” in vilification) had paid a call at the house, if not precisely cap in hand as he had been told, at least with a hand at the visors of those red caps of theirs, as floppy and faded as those of any Bourbon officer.
