"You allow yourself to be furious for the sake of a piece of gossip which has no foundation whatever.

What is the story they tell ?" "Some nonsense about Giovanni Saracinesca's going away last week.

Del Ferice proposed to call him before you, and Giovanni was angry." "That is absurd," said Corona.

"Don Giovanni was not the least annoyed.
He was with me afterwards--" "Always Giovanni! Always Giovanni! Wherever you go, it is Giovanni!" cried the old man, in unreasonable petulance--unreasonable from his point of view, reasonable enough had he known the truth.

But he struck unconsciously upon the key-note of all Corona's troubles, and she turned pale to the lips.
"You say it is not true," he began again.