"I have nothing more to say." "Do you then mean to repeat the warning you once gave me ?" asked Corona, growing whiter still.

"Do you mean to imply that there is danger to your son ?" "There is danger--great danger for him, unless you will avert it." "And how ?" asked Corona, in a low voice.
"Madam, by becoming his wife." Corona started and turned away in great agitation.

Saracinesca stood still while she slowly walked a few steps from him.

She could not speak.
"I could say a great deal more, Duchessa," he said, as she came back towards him.

"I could say that the marriage is not only fitting in every other way, but is also advantageous from a worldly point of view.