He looked as though he might be in a decline, and he was clearly very nervous and ill at ease.

But he did not speak at all as she supposed that a man would who was deeply in love.

Taquisara had spoken far better.

He had seemed so much in earnest that if he had suddenly substituted himself for Gianluca as the subject of his phrases, Veronica could have believed him easily enough.
"Then I may hope that you will forgive me for coming here, thinking that I might meet you ?" said the young man, with a question in his voice.
"Why should you not come ?" asked Veronica, not unkindly, but with the least possible inflexion of impatience.
"There can certainly be no reason, if you are not offended," he answered.

"But if I thought that I had offended you, by coming, I should never forgive myself." "But I should certainly forgive you, if you offended me unintentionally.
Besides, there is no reason in the world why you should not come here to see Bianca whenever you like, if she will receive you.