23/32 It is very much the same position, and Contarini will be indifferent about her, which he is not, where you are concerned. Between the glass-blower and me, and his wife and you, he will not be a man to be envied. That is another reason for helping the marriage as much as we can." "What if the glass-blower makes her give him money ?" asked the Georgian woman. "If she loves him she will give him everything she has, and he will take all he can get, of course." "Of course, if she had anything to give," said Aristarchi. |