"If that is not enough to make one dislike a young man, you shall tell me so! But one of those days he will fall.

There is trouble for the proud." "How does his great pride show itself ?" asked Marietta.

"I have not noticed it." "That would indeed be the end of everything, if he showed his pride to you!" Nella was much displeased by the mere suggestion.

"But with us it is different.

He never speaks to the other workmen." "They never speak to him." "And quite right, too, since he holds his head so high, with no reason at all! But it will not last for ever! I wonder what the master would think, for instance, if he knew that Zorzi takes the skiff in the evening, and rows himself over to Venice, all alone, and comes back long after midnight, and sleeps in the glass-house across the way because he cannot get into the house.