"It is the same thing.

My life is as valuable as Paolo's.

I only suggested that you should transfer your tender attentions from me to my brother." "It is one thing to threaten a man to his face.

It is quite another to offer a man a serious inducement to commit murder.

Since you have been so very frank with me, Sor Marzio, I will confess that if the choice lay between killing you, or killing Don Paolo, under the present circumstances I would not hesitate a moment." "And which would you--" "Neither," replied the young man, with a cool laugh.