"He paid a visit in unconventional manner--waylaid me, in fact, in this very avenue, and asked me to help him.

He declined to meet my husband, and was very bitter about my marriage to a foreigner.

However, I forgave him, for my own heart was sore in me, and he also had been unfortunate in a different way.

We had a long talk, and I kissed him at parting.

I afterwards found that Giovanni had seen us from his bedroom.