In his secret heart he believed that the teacher whom he had maintained at a considerable cost, was withholding the occult knowledge he so much coveted.

Bruno, meanwhile, attended Andrea Morosini's receptions in the palace at S.Luca, and frequented those of Bernardo Secchini at the sign of the Golden Ship in the Merceria.

He made friends with scholars and men of fashion; absented himself for weeks together at Padua; showed that he was tired of Mocenigo; and ended by rousing that man's suspicious jealousy.

Mocenigo felt that he had been deceived by an impostor, who, instead of furnishing the wares for which he bargained, put him off with declamations on the nature of the universe.

What was even more terrible, he became convinced that this charlatan was an obstinate heretic.
Whether Bruno perceived the gathering of the storm above his head, whether he was only wearied with the importunities of his host, or whether, as he told the Inquisitors, he wished to superintend the publication of some books at Frankfort, does not greatly signify.