She, too, was ambitious, but her ambition was all for him.

She felt that there was little room for common aspirations in his position or in her own.

All that high birth, and wealth, and personal consideration could give, they both had abundantly, beyond their utmost wishes; anything they could desire beyond that must lie in a larger sphere of action than mere society, in the world of political power.

She herself had had dreams, and entertained them still, of founding some great institution of charity, of doing something for her poorer fellows.

But she learned by degrees that Giovanni looked further than to such ordinary means of employing power, and that there was in him a great ambition to bring great forces to bear upon great questions for the accomplishment of great results.