We were neither of us his friends, at any rate.

We do not rejoice at his death; we merely regard it in the light of an event which modifies our immediate future.

He is dead, and his wife is free.

So long as he was alive, the fact of your loving her was exceedingly unfortunate: it was injuring you and doing a wrong to her.

Now, on the contrary, the greatest good fortune that can happen to you both is that you should marry each other." "That is true," returned Giovanni.