My dear Bosio, people in your rank of life do not murder one another for money nowadays.

It is laughable, the mere idea of it--" "Laughable!" Bosio turned and looked at him.

"If you had seen her eyes, you would find it hard to laugh, I think.

Such things happen rarely, perhaps, but they happen sometimes." Don Teodoro was not persuaded.

He thought that Bosio, in his excited state, very much overestimated the danger.
"At all events," he said, "nothing will happen, so long as there is the possibility that you may marry her.