"What a strange chance it was that brought that register under your hand!" "Heaven sends opportunities," said Del Ferice, devoutly; "it is for man to make good use of them.

Who knows but what you may make a brilliant use of this ?" "I cannot, since I am bound by my promise," said Donna Tullia.
"No; I am sure you will not think of doing it.

But then, we might perhaps agree that circumstances made it advisable to act.

Many months must pass before he can think of offering himself to her.

It will be time enough to consider the matter then--to consider whether we should be justified in raising such a terrible scandal, in causing so much unhappiness to an innocent woman like the Duchessa, and to a worthless man like Don Giovanni.