Now what is it ?" she asked as they reached the place she had chosen.
"It is this, Teresina," said Bastianello, summoning all his courage for what was the most difficult undertaking of his life.

"You know my brother Ruggiero." "Eh! I should think so! I see him every day." "Good.

He also sees you every day, and he sees how beautiful you are, and now he knows how good you are, because the little boy of the Son of the Fool saw you with that apoplexy of a Count in the garden to-day, and heard what you said, and came and told me, and I told Ruggiero because I knew how glad he would be." "Dio mio!" cried Teresina.

She had blushed scarlet while he was speaking, and she covered her face with both hands.
"You need not hide your face, Teresina," said Bastianello, with a little emotion.

"You can show it to every one after what you have done.