In helping Angelo Guidascarpi to evade the law, she had imperilled her son and herself.
Many of the Bolognese sbirri were in pursuit of Angelo.

Some knew his person; some did not; but if those two before whom she had identified Angelo as being her son Carlo chanced now to be in the house, and to have seen him, and heard his name, the risks were great and various.
'Do you know that handsome young Count Ammiani ?' Countess Lena said to Wilfrid.

'Perhaps you do not think him handsome?
He was for a short time a play-fellow of mine.

He is more passionate than I am, and that does not say a little; I warn you! Look how excited he is.

No wonder.