Then, too, there was the will she had signed a fortnight since, for the sake of peace.

If there was nothing in what the priest had said, why had they been so terribly anxious to get the document executed without delay?
It was scarcely natural.

And there were fifty other details, turns of phrases, changes of expression, little words of Gregorio's spoken in an enigmatic tone to his wife, which Veronica had not understood, but which she had therefore remembered, and which could mean that he was on the verge of ruin, and in great trouble of mind about his affairs.

Amidst the wildly shifting scenery of dreams, the little doll figures of abiding facts out of memory joined hands in procession, showing their faces one by one and their likeness to one another more and more clearly.

Even in her dream, it flashed upon her that it might all be true except that one part of it which said that Bosio had loved Matilde and not herself.