She was under his guardianship, and the worthy man took care to provide Anna, before her departure, with letters to his friends in the eternal city.
Her hasty flight from Rome had been caused by the news, that Don Luis had found and abducted his son.

She could not lose her child, and when she did not find the boy in Milan, followed and at last discovered him in Naples.

There d'Avila restored the child, after she had declared her willingness to make over to him the income she still received from her aunt.

The long journey, so full of excitement and fatigue, exhausted her strength, and she returned to Milan feeble and broken in health.
Her patron had been anxious to keep the place of singing-mistress open for her, but she could only fulfil for a short time the duties to which the superior of the convent kindly summoned her, for her sickness was increasing and a terrible cough spoiled her voice.

She now returned to Lugano, and there sought to compensate her poor honest friend by the sale of her ornaments, but the time soon came when the generous artist was forced to submit to be supported by the charity of a servant.