"But what could have induced him to marry that woman ?" "One of those amiable eccentricities peculiar to his family," replied Del Ferice, shrugging his shoulders.

"The interesting thing would be to discover what became of Felice Baldi--Donna Felice Saracinesca, as I suppose she has a right to be called." "Let us find her--Giovanni's wife," exclaimed Donna Tullia, eagerly.
"Where can she be ?" "Who knows ?" ejaculated Del Ferice.

"I would be curious to see her.

The name of her native village is given, and the names of her parents.
Giovanni described himself in the paper as 'of Naples, a landholder,' and omitted somehow the details of his parentage.

Nothing could be more vague; everybody is a landholder, from the wretched peasant who cultivates one acre to their high-and-mightinesses the Princes of Saracinesca.