Pietro would have talked with Bianca, and he himself would have had a chance, perhaps, to judge of his actual position.

He was no longer shy and awkward, now, when he was with the young girl.

But Ghisleri did not come, and Gianluca went home, disappointed and disconsolate.
"I suppose that if we were in Sicily," he said to Taquisara on the following morning, "you would propose to carry her off by force.

You once advised me to do something of the sort." "That is a proceeding which needs the consent of the lady," answered the Sicilian.

"The 'force' is employed against the relations.