It is very simple.

I was very angry--I am very angry still; but I would not have had Don Giovanni risk his life on my account for anything, nor poor Del Ferice either.

I am horribly upset about it all." Old Saracinesca wondered whether Donna Tullia's vanity would suffer if he told her that the duel had not been fought for anything which concerned her.

But he reflected that her supposition was very plausible, and that he himself had no evidence.

Furthermore, and in spite of his good-natured treatment of Giovanni, he was very angry at the thought that his son had quarrelled about the Duchessa.