She thought she understood him at last.
'He will not hear of our marriage, now that I am a beggar,' she said, prompting him.
But Giovanni raised his face at once, and rather proudly.
'You are unjust to him,' he said.

'He is not changed.

It is a very different matter.

He has had a great misfortune, and has lost almost all he had, without much hope of recovering anything.

We were very well off, and I should have had a right to marry you, though you had not a penny, if this had not happened.