Donna Tullia looked at him for a moment, and then laughed outright.
"No," she said; "all that is very true.

You may aspire, as you call it.
The question is, whether I shall aspire too.

Of course, if we happened to agree in aspiring, we could be married to-morrow." "Precisely," answered Del Ferice, perfectly unmoved.

"I am not proposing to marry you.

I am arguing the case.