We saw each other in the Aquarium and it was I who kissed you at the same time that I was longing for the extermination of all men....

Of all men except you!" She made a brief pause, raising her eyes toward him, in order to take in the effect of her words.
"You remember our luncheon in the restaurant of Vomero; you remember how I begged you to go away, leaving me to my fate.

I had a foreboding of the future.

I foresaw that it was going to be fatal for you.

How could I join a direct and frank life like yours to my existence as an adventuress, mixed up in so many unconfessable compromises ?...