Del Ferice would have preferred to have let her go alone, and to have witnessed from a distance the scene he had brought about.

But he could not refuse to accompany Madame Mayer.
Neither Corona, who was facing the pair, but was talking with Giovanni, nor Giovanni himself, who was turned away from them, noticed their approach until they came and stood still beside them.

Saracinesca looked up and started.

The Duchessa d'Astrardente raised her black eyebrows in surprise.
"Our dance!" exclaimed Giovanni, in considerable agitation.

"It is the one after this--" "On the contrary," said Donna Tullia, in tones trembling with rage, "it is already over.