"It is natural that you should insult me, a defenceless woman trying to do what is right.

It is worthy of your race and reputation.

I will leave you to the consideration of the course you intend to follow, and I advise you to omit nothing which can help to prove the innocence of your son." Donna Tullia bestowed one more glance of contemptuous defiance upon the group, and brushed angrily out of the room.
"So much for her madness!" exclaimed Giovanni, when she was gone.

"I think I have got to the bottom of that affair." "It seems so simple, and yet I never thought of it," said Corona.

"How clever you are, Giovanni!" "There was not much cleverness needed to see through so shallow a trick," replied Giovanni.