"Of course not.
But, dearest Marchesa, since you have judged for us--and there is no one else to judge--do you not think that you might leave the rest in my hands?
The mere question to be asked, you know, in the hope of a final answer--the mere technicality of love-making, with which you can only be familiar from the woman's point of view, and not from the man's, as I am.

Not that I have had much experience---" "You ?" laughed the Marchesa, touching his hand with her fan.

"You without much experience! But you are historical, dearest friend! Who does not know of your conquests ?" "I, at least, do not," answered San Miniato with well-affected modesty.
"But that is not the question.

Let us get back to it.

This is my plan.
The moon is full to-morrow and the weather is hot.