Aurora did not go with her, and Corbario barely asked after her.

He led Maddalena to his dead wife's room and begged her to take some object that had belonged to the Signora, in memory of their long friendship.

He pressed her to accept a necklace, or a bracelet, or some other valuable ornament, but Maddalena would only take a simple little gold chain which she herself had given long ago.
Her own sorrow for her friend was profound but undemonstrative, as her nature had grown to be.

Aurora saw it, and never referred to it, speaking only now and then of Marcello, to ask if there were any news of him.
"He is not dead," the girl said one day.

"I know he will come back.