Her mother took a lover, and her father killed him, here on the Frascati road, and almost killed her too; but the law gave him the right and he went free." "And then, what did he do ?" asked Ercole, slowly putting the remains of his bread into his canvas bag.
"What did he do?
He went away and never came back.

What should he do ?" "Quite right.

And the woman, what became of her ?" "She took other men, for she had no shame.

And at last one of them was jealous, and struck her on the head with a paving stone, not meaning to kill her; but she died." "Oh, she died, did she ?" "She died.

For she was always spiteful.