Premise: Of course he knew nothing about her being there .<br>Then he started off in his Seven - league Boots , and before you could say `` Jack Robinson '' he was in Rome , in the grounds of a splendid palace called the Villa Borghese .<br>There he saw an elderly gentleman , in a great curled wig , sound asleep on a seat beneath a tree .
Hypothesis: the man traveled to rome by plane, that is how he got there so quickly