"If I were curious--fortunately for you I am not!--I would send for a mason and have some of the stones of the pavement turned over before me.

A mason would soon find the one you moved by trying them all with his hammer." "Yes," said Zorzi.

"If this were a room in your own glass-house, you could do that.

But it is not." "I am in charge of all that belongs to my father, during his absence," answered Giovanni.
"Yes," said Zorzi again.

"Including Paolo Godi's manuscript, as you told me," he added.
"You understand very well why I said that," Giovanni answered, with visible annoyance.
"I only know that you said it," was the retort.