I was a fool! I lost my head!' He tapped angrily at the little ink-flask in his coat-pocket.

The first act, after scenes between false Camillo and Michiella, ends with the marriage of Camillo and Camilla;--a quatuor composed of Montini, Vittoria, Irma, and Lebruno.

Michiella is in despair; Count Orso is profoundly sonorous with paternity and devotion to the law.

He has restored to Camilla a portion of her mother's sequestrated estates.
A portion of the remainder will be handed over to her when he has had experience of her husband's good behaviour.

The rest he considers legally his own by right of (Treaties), and by right of possession and documents his sword.