The two elder girls, Teresina and Nanetta, waited on the guests, and served the excellent wine grown on Olivo's hillsides.

Both the Marchese and the Abbate paid their thanks to the young waitresses with playful and somewhat equivocal caresses which a stricter parent than Olivo would probably have discountenanced.
Amalia seemed to be unaware of all this.

She was pale, dejected, and looked like a woman determined to be old, since her own youth had ceased to interest her.
"Is this all that remains of my empire ?" thought Casanova bitterly, contemplating her in profile.

Yet perhaps it was the illumination which gave so gloomy a cast to Amalia's features.

From the interior of the house a broad beam of light fell upon the guests.