I won't ask you to tell me where you were, and I don't want to play the inquisitor; but the fact is, I know very well without asking.
And, my dear nephew, I cannot but tell you that you are acting unwisely,--imprudently even." "What have I done that is wrong, sir?
Is it not fitting that I should show some attention to people, who came here recommended to you, and whom you yourself first commissioned me to assist ?" said Ludovico.
"What is the good of answering in that way, Ludovico.

Just as if we both did not know better than that, and know too what we both mean?
Pay some attention! Pshaw! Do you think that I am quite a fool?
As if I did not know what you go there for, and what you have been going there for these eight months past, since first I was blockhead enough to throw that pretty girl in your way.

Now, figliuolo mio, it is my duty to tell you that that sort of thing won't do--just at present.

I don't want, as I said, to play the inquisitor, nor do I wish to play the preacher.

When you are married you must guide your own conduct as you may think fit; but now every consideration of propriety and prudence should teach you that you must not continue to run after that young person in the sight of all the town in the way you do.