Where was Isadore? Maria had to find him fast, because otherwise he might think Puppy-Eater really was Beato and that would be no good. But she'd been running so heedlessly in her first flush of escape that she was now quite lost--lost in the crowd and lost in the city. She hadn't lost track of Sakutaro yet, thank goodness, but otherwise she was very much lost. And tired. And scared.

Maybe that's why she bumped into the very tall boy.

"Oh!" she says. "Sorry!"