There was nothing the old man disliked so much as silence.
"Why do you not answer me ?" he asked, rather petulantly.
"I do not know--I was thinking," said Corona, simply.

"I do not see that it is a great match after all, for the last of the Saracinesca." "You think she will lead him a terrible dance, I daresay," returned the old man.

"She is gay--very gay; and Giovanni is very, very solemn." "I did not mean that she was too gay.

I only think that Saracinesca might marry, for instance, the Rocca girl.

Why should he take a widow ?" "Such a young widow.