"Yet you protested that I should not come to-day!" "I cannot help it," he answered.
"Ah, but if you had been with us just now!" Nella began, still frightened.
But Marietta would not let her go on.
"Hold your tongue, Nella," she said, with a little laugh.

"You should know better than to trouble a sick man's fancy with such stories." Nella understood that Zorzi was not to know, and she began examining the foot, to make sure that the bandages had not been displaced during the night.
"To-morrow I will change them," she said.

"It is not like a scald.

The glass has burned you like red-hot iron, and the wound will heal quickly." "If you will tell me which crucible to try," said Marietta, "I will make the tests for you.

Then we can move the table to your side and you can prepare the new ingredients according to the writing." Pasquale had left them, seeing that he was not wanted.
"I fear it is of little use," answered Zorzi, despondently.