Bosio Macomer was in his coffin.

The servants were exhausted, and there was no one to direct.

Gregorio had been heard laughing wildly in his room, and a frightened chambermaid said that he was going mad.

Elettra had great difficulty in getting something to eat, which she brought to Veronica's room with a glass of wine.
The girl's first outbreak of sorrow ebbed to a melancholy placidity, as the hours went by.

She got her prayer-book, and read certain prayers for the dead.