But she would not.

And then, between one word and another, they found out that they loved.

And I am very glad, for Teresina is a good girl as she showed the other day in the garden, and the little boy of the Son of the Fool saw it when she threw the gold at that man's feet--" He stopped again, suddenly realising what he was saying.

But Beatrice, quick to suspect, saw the look of pained embarrassment in his face and almost guessed the truth.

She grew pale by degrees.
"What man ?" she asked shortly.
Ruggiero turned his head and looked away from her, gazing out to seaward.
"What was the man's name ?" she asked again with the stern intonation that anger could give her voice.
Still Ruggiero would not speak.