11/14 "I will write, and you shall bear my letter." "What think you will the Lord Giovanni do ?" I burst out, with a scorn that must have puzzled her. "Think you his safety does not give him care enough in the hiding-place to which he has crept, that he should draw upon himself the vengeance of the Borgias ?" She stared at me in ineffable surprise. "But the Lord Giovanni is brave and valiant," she cried, and down in my heart I laughed in bitter mockery. It may well be that it awakened, too, reflection. She was silent for a little space. |