She would visit them every day, and herself provide for their wants and care for their sufferings.

She would give the place her husband's name, and the good she would accomplish with his earthly portion might perhaps profit his soul.

She would go to Padre Filippo and ask his advice.

He would know what was best to be done, for he knew more of the misery in Rome than any one, and had a greater mind to relieve it.
She had seen him since her husband's death, but she had not yet conceived this scheme.
And Giovanni--she thought of him too; but the habit of putting him out of her heart was strong.

She dimly fancied that in the far future a day might come when she would be justified in thinking of him if she so pleased; but for the present, her loyalty to her dead husband seemed more than ever a sacred duty.