But there was a remedy! He displayed the specific on a third finger.

It was there.
This being done (number three on the fingers), matters might still be well.

So much his electric French and gesticulations plainly asserted.
Beppo strained all his attention for names, in despair at the riddle of the signs.

Names were pillars of light in the dark unintelligible waste.
The signora put a question.

It was replied to with the name of the Maestro Rocco Ricci.