Now that I find you don't think my ideas about her are altogether absurd, I will keep my eyes more open than ever in future.

I am convinced she is a bad one, and I only hope we may be able to prove it." "You have made me very uncomfortable, Francisco," Matteo said as he stepped ashore; "but we will talk about it again tomorrow." "We shall meet at your cousin's in the evening.

Before that time, we had better both think over whether we ought to tell anyone our suspicions, and we can hold a council in the gondola on the way back." Francis did think the matter over that night.

He felt that the fact told him by Giulia, that the gouvernante had herself been the means of their staying out later than usual on the evening of the attack, added great weight to the vague suspicions he had previously entertained; and he determined to let the matter rest no longer, but that the next day he would speak to Signor Polani, even at the risk of offending him by his suspicions of a person who had been, for some years, in his confidence.

Accordingly, he went in the morning to the palazzo, but found that Signor Polani was absent, and would not be in until two or three o'clock in the afternoon.