I said that any woman--" "Including Madame Mayer, of course," interrupted Giovanni again.
"Can you not let me speak ?" roared the Prince.

Giovanni shrugged his shoulders a little, poured out a glass of wine, and helped himself to cheese, but said nothing.

Seeing that his son said nothing, old Saracinesca was silent too; he was so angry that he had lost the thread of his ideas.

Perhaps Giovanni regretted the quarrelsome tone he had taken, for he presently spoke to his father in a more conciliatory tone.
"Let us be just," he said.

"I will listen to you, and I shall be glad if you will listen to me.