She hesitated for a moment.
"That is perfectly just," said Corona.

"If you have proofs, you can produce them.

If you have none, you are insane." "I have them, and I will produce them before this hour to-morrow," answered Donna Tullia, not knowing how she should get the papers, but knowing that she was lost if she failed to obtain them.
"Why not to-day--at once ?" asked Giovanni, with some scorn.
"It will take twenty-four hours to forge them," growled his father.
"You have no right to insult me so grossly," cried Donna Tullia.

"But beware--I have you in my power.

By this time to-morrow you shall see with your own eyes that I speak the truth.