She let the necklace remain about her throat.
"You have not told me about your father's discovery," she said, suddenly.
"Yes--I will tell you." In a few minutes he communicated to her the details of the journey.

She listened with profound interest.
"It is very strange," she said.

"And yet it is so very natural." "You see it is all Del Ferice's doing," said Giovanni.

"I suppose it was really an accident in the first place; but he managed to make a great deal of it.

It is certainly very amusing to find that the last of the other branch is an innkeeper in the Abruzzi.