Do your best, Carlo, and let it be your utmost.' It remained for Ammiani to assure her that their views were different.
'The signorina persists in her determination to carry out the programme indicated by the Chief, and refuses to be diverted from her path by the false suspicions of subordinates.' He employed a sententious phraseology instinctively, as men do when they are nervous, as well as when they justify the cynic's definition of the uses of speech.

'The signorina is, in my opinion, right.

If she draws back, she publicly accepts the blot upon her name.

I speak against my own feelings and my wishes.' 'Sandra, do you hear ?' exclaimed Laura.

'This is a friend's interpretation of your inconsiderate wilfulness.' Vittoria was content to reply, 'The Signor Carlo judges of me differently.' 'Go, then, and be fortified by him in this headstrong folly.' Laura motioned her hand, and laid it on her face.
Vittoria knelt and enclosed her with her arms, kissing her knees.
'Beppo waits for me at the house-door,' she said; but Carlo chose not to hear of this shadow-like Beppo.
'You have nothing to say for her save that she clears her name by giving the signal,' Laura burst out on his temperate 'Addio,' and started to her feet.