"Then where are you going ?" "To the glass-house," answered Marietta with perfect coolness.
"You are not going to the laboratory?
Zorzi is living there alone.

You cannot go there." "I am not afraid of Zorzi.

In the first place, I wish to know how he is.
Secondly, this is the hour for making the tests, and as he cannot stand he cannot try the glass alone." Giovanni was amazed at her assurance, and immediately assumed a grave and authoritative manner befitting the eldest brother who represented the head of the house.
"I cannot allow you to go," he said.

"It is most unbecoming.

Our father would be shocked.