The terrible repudiation scene ensues, in which Camillo casts off his wife.

If it was a puzzle to one Italian half of the audience, the other comprehended it perfectly, and with rapture.

It was thus that YOUNG ITALY had too often been treated by the compromising, merely discontented, dallying aristocracy.

Camilla cries to him, 'Have faith in me! have faith in me! have faith in me!' That is the sole answer to his accusations, his threats of eternal loathing, and generally blustering sublimities.

She cannot defend herself; she only knows her innocence.