Could one of them be this one whom she had cared for when she was a girl?
It seemed hatefully cruel to him to believe it.

She spoke to Agostino, begging him to remain with her on the height awhile to see whether the Signor Antonio-Pericles was right; to see whether Luigi was a truth-teller; to see whether these English persons were really coming.
"Because," she said, "if they do come, it will at once dissolve any suspicions you may have of this Luigi.

And I always long so much to know if the Signor Antonio is correct.

I have never yet known him to be wrong." "And you want to see these English," said Agostino.

He frowned.
"Only to hear them.