"INNOCENT" "Carriage for Mr. Hermil" "Very good, Mr. Hermil" " Thanks" " Here is your carriage, Sire" " Thanks" "Continue tomorrow." "I must rush, by now I am late." "I must go" " agreed, tomorrow - tomorrow" "Please?" "On guard" "I have not understood" "Well yes, I said that for me the coldness of English is a myth  pure invention - and who would be the inventor?" " The Italians, perhaps - and why invent such a thing?" " For envy" " Indeed?" "Why do you say that?" "You don't say?" " Good evening" " Good evening" " And how did it end, contessa?" " and he said endure or not" "Is it tonight for her to sing Speranza?" " Not, next tuesday" " That's a pity, I shall not be there" " They say that she is extraordinary" " As singer or as woman?" "I only mean of song" "If the princess knew the little invites that you come for music..." "She knows very well they are like a penance that inflicts us" "We come here to court the contessa Teresa Raffo  for penance Mozart, two Schubert and four Liszt" " That appeals too" " Good Evening," "Good evening, beloved" " What sin makes you arrives late" " The guilt is mine, princess" "I am more than convinced" "You missed a beautiful Liszt and Mozart." "Sit near me." "She interprets Chopin very well" "I wanted to thank you, princess, I have to leave" "Go already?" "That's too bad!" " She is an extraordinary pianist" " I think so" "Goodbye" "Where do you go?" "Stay if you are with her" " I did not know that she would come" " Yes I know" "Farewell." "Enjoy yourself" " Teresa, please" " You come walk with me?" "I cannot, you understand you come out with me now, or this is the last time that you see me  the last time, and I speak seriously" "Tullio Beloved, don't forget that the Princess invited him, if he goes" "It does not matter to me, prince" "I have an other festivity" " You want to tell Conte Egano that I am waiting for him?" "I will Contessa" "It doesn't matter, here he is" "Stefano Beloved!" "I want to go early" "Come, Tullio" "I want to go back in before the ossessa recommences" "My wife takes much offense if she does not see me  little enough to make them happy" "Thanks" "I will return to take you later" "But, why?" " I will send back the carriage  I don't believe that I will return, I am not well" "I'll come with you" " Let's not complicate." "Later" "Come in" "As you see I know you enough well  I knew that you would come" "Ah, I would have preferred to wait for you before leaving again  more rather than to risk finding you on my return tonight" "Give me the keys of the house" "I could not come here come with you" "My wife wanted me to accompany her to the concert of her best friend" "Why have you not told me that you would have gone too?" "I went just because I knew that you would have gone" "It was time for you to face the situation." "Don't you think?" "Up to now you have succeeded, with the ability of prestige  to not understand things as they truly are" " and therefore I have taken the initiative" " What did you want to discover?" "That I am married?" "You have always known" " I accept" " Then?" "But from what you say, is that much of the time  that the relationships between you and your wife would be... formal" " So they are" " Not true" "Enough to see you together to see it" "You are like all the bourgeois husbands of this world, my beloved" "You vow to the lover not to have relationships with the wife  and to the wife swear to not have a lover" "Is it not mean, that denial" "I am a free woman, really, not only a word..." "like you" "You are jealous of her?" "I do not share a man with an other woman  even if she is his wife" "You do not share me with anyone, and you know" "Do not think that I do not have you within me, always" "That presence is made felt continuously, obstinate even an enemy." "You must leave." "You return to your wife." "You leave me" "No, I do not leave you" "You remain with me" " Still wide awake ?" " You had said that you were not well..." "Stupid me , I was worried" "I have opened the window one hundred times in order to see you return" "See what I was doing?" "I was writing to you" "But now that you are here..." "Tomorrow I leave for Florence, I do not know how long I will be away" "This time is no laughing matter, I must tell you" " You go forever?" " Forever." "Such a large word" "I feel, Giuliana  I have not never spoken to you of it but I am sure  that some pious spirit will have told you of my acts of infidelity to you" "I have not spoken you of it because they were not important and above all because between us ...since the beginning is clearly a pact." "From our wedding" "Love is hard until   after become common affection, esteem, friendship, interests..." "Always that it is possible, clear and therefore have been because you have accepted  without to rebel to you, a situation that exists from much time" "Were history without importance, like you say for I have tried to ignore them, do not give matter to us..." " For me marriage must..." " Yes, our marriage had  to be defended also from own resentments and you have reason." "You are extraordinary although my love for you has  faded , as is fated to happen  the affection and the respect I have only increased" "I love you and I respect you.." "... as the sweetest sister of which I could not make less" "I understand that you would have the right to leave me  but I would suffer much if you abandoned me." "I want you to continue living with me?" "To help me?" "To help you?" "In what sense?" "Support me." "To face a situation that according to the ways of our society, I would surely be criticized" " the woman who I love" " Teresa Raffo" " Yes, Teresa" " She is a widow, free  Then what prevents you living with her, if you have want?" "I have said to you that I love Teresa, not that I want to marry her" "She is a sensual woman, beautiful" "I desire her" "No woman has ever succeeded in occupying me with herself..." "like she" "But how would it be?" "I arrive and she leaves." "Hey, anyone home?" "Federico" " Tullio" " Federico" "I have three days of leave, I arrive, and you leave?" "No, I go alone" " Fortunate that you are here" " Must you go?" "Truly..." "How many leave days have you?" "Three, three and half, exactly" "I feel, I  I am in one situation  that I do not know how to define" "I must leave and Giuliana remains alone" "I do not want to martyr her, but  to only know that you are here will calm me a lot" "I want to pass the three days in Rome, but not with my sister-in-law" " a delicious, adorable Creature..." " No, you can do what you want  To me it is enough to know that you are here" "Enough that in the evening before going out, you step into her apartment say hello and tell her what you do." "She will be content, it is a delicate gesture" "You are the only tenant in this house?" "From outside it seems therefore large" "I will explain how they happen, if it will not disappoint you too much" "I promised to show them one of the most beautiful houses in Rome and..." "I did not say that it is not beautiful, is very beautiful, only that..." "Not, it is not beautiful" "This villa was made to instructions of my mother  wanted trees around  to see the green even if we were in cities" "My father did all in order to please her  but, died he, my mother returned to Badiola, the house in the country  where there are many more trees, much more green than here" "When my brother married, he came here here with his wife  I have held for me these three rooms, I am really independent" "Then this is not truly your house" "Yes, yes, this is true also I assure you" "Federico!" "Federico!" "Giuliana, what has happened?" "What happens to you, Giuliana?" "answer" "Please, help me" " I go to call the doctor" " Wait here, Gentleman" "She has not passed out." "Must have taken something is nobody at home, you are alone?" "Not, they already have gone to sleep except me" "I was depressed and I have taken something in order to sleep and instead calming me  it brought anguish, fear..." " I did not want to remain alone" " We are here, how do you feel?" " It is nothing, I am stupid" " Feel better?" "Yes, better" "Forgive me for having disturbed you" "Do not raise you" "This is my friend Filippo D'Arborio, he is a writer  you do not think that you had such important friends, eh?" "Ulterico Vinicci" "Signora Elviretta, my sister-in-law Giuliana" " Good evening" "I ask excuse all......" "I have ruined your supper  return to table," " You cannot remain alone, this evening" "Come" "When you have to sleep as I say  or, you can sleep here, rocked from our voices" " When I was intern with Filippo..." " You were in college together!" "I was a poor boy  my family did not have sufficient means for me to study" "I lived in college, in a room by reputation the smallest" " next to which there was Federico" " He went to sleep before me always" "Just so, as soon as I began to speak he fell asleep." "Perhaps ... it was the tone of my voice that produced this effect it would appeal to me that also this time it would succeed in making her sleep" "breakfast is served" "What scent!" "They are lillies?" "In this season?" "How you have found them?" "How kind !" "They are from, it appears, Stefano Egano" "How can you allow that imbecile?" "It's not good to read the letters of others" "You are being foolish  if I have wanted someone, I would be with him, not you" "I did promise to go to see his horses race at Cascine and instead I am here with you" "Are you complaining?" "I hoped to see you yesterday at the races my horses won prizes" "There are too many people, I have had fear" "Tomorrow are the steeplechases" "I have two horses entered." "I can make them to have the major places" "I'm afraid that will not be possible for me" "In case you change your mind..." "I can assure you that Contessa Raffo will not change her mind" " I would like to talk to the contessa" " I explain to you, that's enough" "If you change your mind..." "She is busy" "Of course" "Many friends of Egano say that he has returned to Rome and also it seems" "She has broken with Tullio." "You have done well to come" "Forget those that make comments." "They do not commiserate with you" "Do not accept the role of the betrayed and abandoned wife" "You are here in order to demonstrate to contrary" "I hoped to arrive on time to say not coming  would have certainly come .." "...but my train was delayed" "While I fought with some idiot in Florence, she left saying nothing she wants to see again the cost of a scandal" "She is a liar, false, unseizable" "In the moment that you feel she is yours, she escapes" "You already feel that I am chasing other fantasies" "I must find the strength to make it finish, not to see her anymore and you must help me." " What I can do?" " I do not know, many things" "To remind me of my purpose not to see her more, to convince me" "Nobody can less convince you than me" "Not true" "The most dangerous thing is the desperation which I find, that makes  me feel therefore unhappy but at the same time renders me alive, vital" "This is the first time that I find myself in a situation as this" "It is true that a man ends by selling his soul for his youth and then finds himself in love without defense" "You talk as if I never existed" "You have reason, I am unjust." "Excuse you must have patience with me  like with a sick sick one that felt sorry for it's own disease" " Was it you singing?" " Yes" " You go out?" " Yes." " Where are you going?" " To the auction of Di-Castro" "I do not succeed to pin my veil, help me, please?" "Thanks" "You have a new scent?" "What is?" "Crab-apple, an English scent" "La Fiamma" "To Giuliana Hermil, Turris Eburnea dishonourably I offer  Filippo D' Arborio" " You do not leave?" " Do you know D'Arborio?" " Yes" " I did not know, from when?" " Your brother introduced me to him." " Have you read it?" " Yes, I have leafed through some pages" "He is a mediocre writer  does he not seem to you?" " No" "He has a haughty, emphatic style   insufferable" " How can you talk like that?" "He has an extraordinary style, bewitching to me, like music you cannot judge an artist having read only a few pages" "You take him to heart!" "He may be a great writer, like you say, but he is badly educated  this I will acknowledge to you" "The dedication that he has written to you is not only emphatic  but also inopportune if it is believed that it is meant for a lady met a single time" "I have seen him other times since Federico introduced me" "Take the carriage?" "No, I prefer to walk" "See you later" "I have seen all 4500 Liras and 4500 Liras twice" " Contessa Raffo, compliments!" " Thanks" "Now a pin in dove shape." "Diamonds, rose and rubies" "Value estimated at 5-6000 we start from 1000 for this 1000, 1100, 1400, 1600  2000, 2200 mrs." "2400, 2800, 3000  3500 here in bottom, 4000 in front of the bench, 4500 the mrs.  5000 here." "I feel the room heating up" "Good evening, Mr. Hermil. 6000, I adjudicate to 6000... 6500, 7000, 7500." "It makes it appeal to 8000, 8500, 9000, 9500, 11000" "Selling for 11000, 11000 and one and two, 11000... sold!" "Now for auction a beautiful fashionable bracelet, of most recent invoice  with more than one hundred diamonds and sapphires, mounted in platinum" "Estimated 10000." "Start with 1000" "Who offers more?" "Thousands, thousand Liras, two thousand, two thousand Liras" "Good evening my lady" " Good evening Emilio" " Mr. Tullio is at home?" " No, my lady, he has gone out" "Tell the kitchen that I have already had supper" " Good night" " Good night , my lady" "I have passed entire nights downstairs, watching your windows" "I know, I have seen you" "and you have not called me" "Why are you so cruel to me?" "You are one of those men made to suffer" "Egoist, proud  controlling, and master of love" "If you knew how much it has cost to me to resist  to want to call to you" "But they have succeeded  so you had to come to seek for me today" "But I did not seek for you today" "I was at home" " it is not true" " Yes, I swear to you" "I was at home from where I did not leave" "My wife has said me that she went to the auction, and then..." "That was what your wife said?" "But she was not there, I assure you" "I did not have anything to do, and arrived half an hour early" "I , that arrives everywhere late" "I saw all enter, one by one" "Oh God, I ruined it" "Your wife does not say the truth to you, she deceives you perhaps she has a lover" "Sorry, I joke" "I have only seen people that were within ... and I have not seen those that arrived after" "Not after I had seen you" " Good evening, Sir" " My wife has returned?" "Yes, an hour ago, but then she has left" "She made to take the train at 20:30" "She said that she went to see your mother in the Badiola  I believe she has left a note in the study" "Mr.Hermil, is waiting" "He is the only punctual roman, I introduce Filippo D' Arborio" " Tullio Hermil" " D'Arborio" " Do you make an academic bout?" " If it appeals" " Yes" " Please" "Blades in line?" "Salute" "Mask on guard" "Gentlemen, to it" "Tell me if I have done well" "Who do you want next to you at table?" "To right Prince Fondi, who you prefer on the left?" "But I do not know" " That book appeals to you?" " No" "To me, yes." "And also the person who has written it" "I had invited him this evening, but he is not in Rome" "D'Arborio?" "I will see what will remake his life, as soon as he returns" "I will organize another evening, I want you to get to know each other" " I know him, thanks" " So how can I have known that?" " You are in a bad humor?" " Not at all" "Then, give your approval to me for the table places?" "Do not forget that we must give an answer this evening to Dampierre" "What do you say?" "Are we going to Paris or not?" "It was you that was invited" "I'll go if you come also" "How many things you want me to do?" "To give a lunch to D'Arborio, travels..." "To become a bachelor again and give to me" "I am here, the ambassador to my right and Dampiere on the left  Good?" " Yes, its good..." "I have put Dampierre close to me to talk about next week if we will go to Paris with them" " OK" "Thanks" "Tullio" " How are you, Giuseppe?" " Well, thanks" " Tullio, beloved" " Mother, how are you?" "You are all alike, you arrive all at once when one least expects you" " and Giuliana?" " Well, also she waited for you" "Where is Mrs. Giuliana?" " In the garden" "Go to call her." "Tell her please that Mr. Tullio has arrived" "Yes, my lady." "How is Giuliana?" "How does she spend her days?" " Fortunately she has friends" " Friends?" "Her friends from Rome are staying with the Torrigiani  Giuliana says that they are likeable persons  and therefore at least pass the time." "I never do go out, I see nobody" "I have said to her to invite who she wants, but in order not to disturb," "Giuliana goes out" "It will be a beautiful surprise for her to find you here" " I find You well" " I was not expecting you" "To tell the truth, not even I wait for you" "I was at the station, I had already a ticket for Paris  Then I saw a train that came here and I have changed my route" "I know that Tullio was a little crazy, but until this point" "Wait" "Will it displease you if he occupies a room in the left wing?" "Tullio reads until late and keeps me wide awake  therefore in order not to disturb each other we sleep in separate rooms" "As you want, there are many rooms" "Take them there please" " You want tea?" " No, thanks" "Thanks" "Ever been to Villalilla?" " No, I never go there" " Like never?" " We have not been" "We will have to speak about Villalilla" "There is a former English diplomat who is in love with it and it wants to buy it" "I said that an optimal transaction could be made  but I am contrary to sell it." "I should rent it but" "Think how much that costs ourselves  when just married you said that you wanted to live there six months of the year..." "I have never thought of us there" "If I rent it we recover expenses of maintenance uninhabited houses suffer depreciation before time" "Think about it." "I do not speak for interest" "For me it will be always your house" "Mother is right, for less I would have to go to see it" "If tomorrow you do not have other engagements, I will go" "Welcome Sir." "Welcome Mrs." "Hello, Callisto" "Give a drink to the horses and also a little graze" "For fifteen days I open the windows to give air to the house  I knew that the gentleman was at Badiola" "I have been late to come, because I waited for that time, so.." "Do you have to do like you told your mother" "Rent it" "Yes, would be the more reasonable thing" "If the diplomatic Englishman would take it" "I would be sorry" "Are you not very well?" "You have the same air, halting and afraid  of before the time that we have come" "here were the same flowers, same scent" "Yes, it was the same season" "Try to be two new persons, at their first encounter" "Depend only on us  if we do not succeed we will return to our unhappiness ... to our miseries" "It is not possible, do not torment me" "Because?" "You are my wife, my sister  but you are never my lover" "love is not just this... above all this" "and I have not never taught you  has been guilt mine, has mistaken" "Tell me that you want to make love with me, tell me" "Tell me that you want me also, tell me" "I began to think you stayed, I wanted to send someone" "How goes it?" " You want me to accompany you?" " No, thanks" "Hello, mother" "Giuliana is not well, I wanted to remain, but she did not want to" " She is ill?" " Nothing serious... a light malaise, perhaps she has caught a chill" "You are right when you say that it is a sin to leave the villa empty" "But not for the English diplomat, we would go to live there.... ... at least some months of the year" " But..." " Yes..." "I know you don't believe me ... But you should see." "It was there beautiful today  The scent of the lillies will be why Giuliana felt  a little unwell, the scent went to her head" "I will go to tell Giuliana to remain in bed, it is prudent" "I will get the doctor to come quickly" "I wanted to get him to come last week, but Giuliana did not wish it." "Giuseppe will not have detached the gig yet, tell himi to go for ... Doctor Milani, it will please me if he comes tonight" "Calm, calm, mother, you are exaggerating without need ... Giuliana is well, you worry about nothing." "Giuliana has forbidden me to speak to you of  until we were sure, but by now there are no doubts  and I will speak to you of it   why she does not ride the gig for that journey" "Giuliana is pregnant" " Pregnant ?" " Yes" "She has told you?" "No, I have worked it out." "She has had many malaises, like today  Nausea, dizziness, insomnia, the things that you imagine  I have asked." "She has said to me that perhaps she was pregnant  but wanted to be sure of it before speaking with you  in order to not deceive you and to not disappoint you, naturally" "I myself recommended she see the doctor  because even if I tell her to take precautions, she does not believe me" "She will be in the third month." "But you, do not betray me, wait for her to tell you" "I have asked for this with much insistence..." "I am so happy!" "I have yearned for this moment!" "Now we must be prudent, the first months are most dangerous  above all for her, she is so delicate," "Beloved, our beloved creature" "Goodnight mother." "I go to sleep" "If Giuliana is awake, I hear it" "Yes, did you see the doctor?" "If Giuseppe had found him , he already would have arrived" " If you have need of something" " No, thanks, goodnight" "Tullio do not go away, I fear to be alone" "you have taken something in order to sleep?" "Tullio, you have slept here all night?" " What has happened?" " you have asked to me to remain here" "I?" "When?" "You do not remember?" "I had taken a sleeping pill  perhaps more than usual" "Since when do you take sleeping pills?" "The doctor knows it?" "Yes" " Show me what you take" " I do not remember where I have put it" "I waiting" "I believe.." "... I have finished all and I have thrown out the bottle" "Is it true what my mother has said to me?" "That you are pregnant?" "Yes, it's true" "I wanted to tell you." "I tried to say it to you at Villalilla" " For this you left Rome?" " Yes, but still I did not know" " and he has followed you here - followed?" "Who?" "We were already all ended before I came here  before I knew that I was  so." "I had found the strength  to overcome the loss." "I was alone, sad" "I do not want to justify myself, or to accuse to you" "I was deprived of hope, so desparate" "But I came after, you rather..." "That which I have always said for me, were worth also for you" "We are two friends, two free persons" "At least you could..." "It would have not been in order to reclaim a right, but I never thought to have" "I swore fidelity to you for always" "For you it was different  but I..." "There is one thing that I want to know" "And it is uniquely important" "Our life until now does not interest me anymore" "In these last days I have returned from you many changes" " and yesterday at Villalilla..." " I pray to You..." "You I pray" "I felt I have found you again and I believed that you were agreed   that it would have been beautiful to recommence all from the beginning" "For a moment I believed that all that had happened  was that not a dream, a nightmare" "It was you and I, like when we just married" "You are sincere?" "Nobody must suspect anything" "Why?" "You want that I remain with you?" "Yes" "I see that you are wide awake" "I came to tell you that I am enrolled in the international championship" "I have need of your help." "You will not want that I dishonour the family?" "I will have to be at least well placed." "You will come down?" " I'll catch up to you soon." "Good day, Giuliana" "Good day, Federico" "Touche, Bravo" "Why do you not go you to the championship in my place?" "You still fence beautifully" "In guard, Tullio" "Calm boys, be careful" "What are you doing?" "Are you crazy?" "Not right, tell me what's happened" "Not now, I am tired" "Boys now enough!" "The doctor is with Giuliana ." "If you want to speak to him," "All is good" "But he wants Giuliana to remain in bed some days  is more prudent." "So, he will talk to you." "You go!" "No, I am sweating, I want to change  I would make him wait for me, make my excuses" "It is useless to pretend" "As you can yourself imagine, mother has told me already" "I am really happy." "Also because therefore she will stop tormenting me  to marry" "An heir has been assured." "Congratulations" "Do you allow me to speak them also to Giuliana?" "Best not now" "Better Mother had kept quiet." "Giuliana is not well" "It is probable that she will not carry this pregnancy through" "But the doctor?" "What does he feel?" "There was another time, when Giuliana was pregnant  a little after we were married  said that all was good" "and it did not go at all well" "If you left suddenly, against the advice of the doctor well, ... my mother would make a tragedy." "Therefore you will remain here for some days" "I meanwhile will go to Rome to speak with Professor Magli  and to prepare all" "However I will have to ask some details..." " In what month are you?" " I have ended the second  a few days ago" "For how much of it I know, it is not still dangerous  if due precautions are taken" "I do not understand" "My love, you do not want to carry the pregnancy ahead?" "you have already had a miscarriage  and that will make a second pass unnoticed" "I speak for my mother, my brother and for all those that I know already" "To professor Magli I know what I must say" "But I cannot" " you cannot what?" " I cannot" "Because you cannot?" "Why you have fear or because you do not want?" "I cannot because it is a crime" "A crime?" "How can you think that I...?" "While you can calmly give my name,  my affection to a stranger" "This for you is not a crime?" "Why do you not answer" "I have said that I want to help you" "I love you and I do not have rancour for what you have done" "I am grateful to you, very grateful, but..." "But what?" "you have said that is history  those refusals, that you do not want to remember" "are not true, because if therefore it were  as you can think that...?" " Impossible, in fact." "I recognize" "I must always allow you." "Giuliana , the true crime is what you want to commit" "Before the remorse of having been with another man torments you ... But of this guilt you acquit yourself alone  and begin to torment to you instead for the consequences of the relationship  and conditions acquittal with such a hard punishment all the life  not only for you." "You see the absurdity of your behavior?" "I am atheist  That does not mean that I do not have moral problems, indeed" "I face them with full knowledge of all that it involves" "Because I do not delegate to divinity the decision of what is right" "I Assume awareness of the responsibility  I know that my sins if sins I have  are not redeemed with repentance  or the inflicting of punishments" "I am a free man the earth is my single country because it does not live temporarily" "my story begins and ends here  I do not have a hell to fear  neither heaven in which to hope" "Secondly we can only count on ourselves that is not a comfortable solution that I propose to you  a solution that faces the truth of the existence  that it is not sheltered in the faith  of a God manifactured from our fantasy  and of another life that assigns the prize or pain" "If I could think like you  to have your security" "To live in fundamental freedom  without fears" "Reflect, it is for you to decide" "However, tomorrow I go to to you Rome and I arrange all as I have said" "You come after me soon you must do me a favour" "you must let me meet your friend Filippo D'Arborio and I must go to Rome for this?" "If you write a letter, he will be happy to come, we are friends" "He will run, with the hope of seeing Giuliana again" "They met one evening at my house and was as if struck by lightning when he took her for a walk..." "I do not want to invite him, I want  to see him at your house." "You invite him and I will visit your house" "It is a delicate matter which I cannot explain to you" "The mistake is mine." "With this warmth, we said to ourselves  that the gentleman will not come back for sure and since there was need, one covered up downstairs  to make to beat the carpets, therefore I have thought..." "I want you to replace them" "In about a week Madam arrives" " Who is in house?" " the cook, Virginia, Alfredo..." "Sir has instructions?" "Like?" "Ah yes, I have need someone to deliver a telegram" "I will send the coachman or if you want, I will go" "OK I call when it's ready" "Then?" "I would have caught up to You, as I wrote to you and as I have telegraphed to you..." "Not even for a moment I have thought that you would be returned so soon you are contradicting yourself you had thought of us" "In fact today you have sent the waiter here, then to Paris" "I was not in anxiety, I did not have your news, before I started my journey" "You want to make me believe ... that you wanted truly to catch up to me to Paris?" " No - you see?" "I have done good to return" "I believe that the truth never does not say itself to four eyes" "So many factors takes part in the intimate relations, and  most times nothing is understood more" " But to understand what?" " That for you it is finished, my beloved" "Time for the truth  soon" "It is not beautiful for a woman to be left" "There are those ready companions and they do not appeal to me" "There are those that will put in doubt her fascination and this does not please me" "You sent me a note when I was already on the train, saying  that serious transactions of family..." "Not even an employee of the land registery would use such little words has sincerely believed, to a catastrophe" "I wanted to go to Paris, yes, in order to amuse myself" "I arrived in Paris and I have not even unpacked" "I am returned immediately, I thought that you had problems  you would intend to have come to me" "my friends will laugh for sure  when I will tell the history to them of my defeat" "What you say ?" "You still want to have supper together?" "As you prefer" " No compliments" " Please, Teresa  You are only person in the world to which I will perhaps be able to say... has left me." "I hope that there is not another day, for us" "Good evening." "I ask to excuse" "My brother Federico, Contessa Raffo" "Contessa." "Osvaldo has said to me that you were here" "You are upset." "Insomnia,near enough" "I have gone to do what you know, but have not found my friend" "I did not seen him again before he left for the field" "I did not know not even that he had gone to Africa." "In Africa, to do what?" "Now he is found in isolation in hospital" "He has been taken by a very serious disease also you perhaps know my friend" " writer Filippo D' Arborio" " I was introduced to him" "I am one of his admirers" "He is between life and death, they have said to me" "The truth is that they understand nothing of tropical diseases  To the danger of the disease add that too many do not know how to cure it" "Sad news" "I am sorry to be bearer of these... indeed" "Come to me when you go" "We will meet tomorrow, too late tonight" "You come to me, I will wait for you" " As you wish" "Good night" "Know what I say to you?" "I suffer less than how much you believed" "Perhaps will come a day I will listen what you have to tell me" "What's happening?" " Nothing" " What nothing?" "the door was open ." "You said to me to come to any hour" "Ah yes, I wanted  I wanted to know in what hospital is D'Arborio recovering" "In the Policlinico block, they do not allow approach to anybody" "Now you must explain to me what you want from him" "When you asked me to know it  I do not hide to you that I have thought you feared that there was something between  D'Arborio and Teresa Raffo" "Logical , in as much as all the gentlemen of Rome of are in love" "On the other part, your Teresa Raffo, without offenses, of course  are not at all type to refuse a whim and instead nothing." "They are informed to me, who meet her" "She has seeen only you  did not know not even that you were sick and so?" "What are all these mysteries?" "I cannot tell you anything" "Is a issue that regards a personal friend" "Beh, I go to sleep, day is made, by now at least tell me when  when he has left for Africa" "I inquire myself, but advise your friend to leave it in peace" "D'Arborio is ill, very ill." "He is a man who deserves respect" "He is not only a great writer also he is an angel the only person , thinking next to which I have a sense of shame" " because?" " It is those thoughts makes us understand us, even you" "We are intelligent, we have travelled, we have studied  we amuse ourselves well therefore, we are rich  and then?" " That piffle you are saying?" "I do not know even that." "Goodnight" "At what time are we going to the circle?" "You must fight me again" "I do not know" "I do not know what happens tomorrow" " Goodnight" " Goodnight" "Good day." "Mrs. Giuliana has need of lighter clothes  and has sent me to take them." "The weather is warm in Badiola mrs. has not said to you that she will come in the next few days to Rome?" "No, Sir" "My excuses, my head!" "These are from Mrs." "I have some jobs to do on behalf of your mother" "I hope to be able to leave this evening, if the gentleman has instructions..." "No, not anything, I will arrive before" "I cannot do what you ask me" "I prefer to go, to disappear from your life  but I cannot commit a crime" " I have spoken about it also ..." " With who have you spoken of it ?" "With my priest" "Has it been him that advised you to go through with it?" "He approves of it, but he has let me decide" "I hope that he will help to give my name to the child" "and why not its father?" "He does not know anything neither must he know it" "Is that true or do you say words?" "you know what it will happen if you decide to leave me?" "It is not important to me, none of the scandal, that's very clear" "But your situation as a single woman  that has deceived to save its child depriving it of father" "Be sure that your decision is dictated only from yours  religion, or morals, call them as you want  if I felt you were mine only mine  I could support anything" "the sons are of him who educates them and raises them" "Hello?" "Good day madam, it is nine o'clock" "Come, come, I'm wide awake" "FILIPPO D'ARBORIO HAS DIED" "have you seen it" "It was known in Rome that he was seriously sick" "You have nothing to say?" "strange" "What!" "I would have sworn you would have said about it" "One disease taken in Africa?" "Why you do not look at me?" "What are you thinking?" "Why do you torment yourself" "Here is the doctor" "I'll go meet him" "Good evening, is the obstetrician here already?" "Yes" "Come with me doctor" "The doctor has come, the doctor!" " He comes at last, - doctor." "I must say one thing and want to declare it in presence of my mother the last time that you visited my wife  you said to me that an alternative could be introduced" "It is very clear, and I assume all the responsibility for it  that if this unfortunate circumstance were to occur  we want to save the life of the mother" "I hope that we will not face this choice" "We are grateful however of being exempt from all responsibility" " I know that the catholic religion..." " I know." "No there is no need" "It is an immoral, criminal law." "I do not regard it" "Come doctor" "Breaths" "Good, long breaths" "Calm" "So , good" "Mr. Tullio!" "Mr. Tullio!" "Mr. Tullio!" "Mr. Tullio it's a boy he has already opened his eyes here safe and sound both. we have done" "Compliments." "A most beautiful child" "All has gone well" "Go also to the Madam, but do not let anybody enter the room" "She had a fleeting crisis." "She is well, but she is very weak" "It is nothing, do not worry." "Yes, insomnia has one curious psychical reaction  do not want to see the child, cry" "How beautiful!" "God bless him" "Raimondo, Raimondo, of grandmother" "Tell the truth!" "he is not the most beautiful child of the world?" "Look at the eyes, I pray you make a good impression of your uncle" "Don't cry, treasure." "Nothing but to eat and to sleep" "Look at the hands." "It comes high, eh?" "But how beautiful ,eh?" "Like all the babies." "The foals distinguish themselves" " You saw what has been born to Zara" " Beh?" "Gray silver, one splendor." "But a child... you say that in order to make me angry." "What do you know of children?" "When you had been born you were most ugly." "Red, wrinkled  you were not at all like he." "Talk to Tullio, instead of making humour" "You must say:" "Tullio your son is as beautiful as the sun" " That must say I?" " Yes" "Nanny, you close the windows against the cold, it is an ugly day" "You have fear of saying to him that the foal is better than Raimondo?" "Don't worry, Mother." "I will say that never has a wonder similar been seen and that he is proud of coming from father" "Who is?" "You joke, but I am deprived of hope, deprived of hope" " But what do you say?" " But you do not have any idea" "I do not take with Giuliana why she has told the doctor  it was the reaction to the state of tension" "But your brother!" "So strange!" "Before he was taking care for her, and can understand it  but now that all has gone well" "Do you know that he never looked at the child?" "Like if it did not exist, nor even speak of it only thing that your brother has known tells me.." "... is that if we want to christen it, we do it on our behalf  without receptions, nothing you had made me scared, that's all?" "You know that Tullio is not religious." "He has his ideas" "You want to say that the reception we will make on an other occasion" " You care about this?" " Yes, a lot and above all" "Always blocks from him about that..." "Hostile" "But no, these are good news" "For a while we will not have the trouble of reception and then Tullio and Giuliana come to agreement  and are forgotting even they have a son." "On, then all will be well" "Tullio will come into church, good like when he married and Raimondo, it is decided that Raimondo he will be called?" "Your crazy husband has has decided to make mother deprived of hope" "It was better if you did not come, if you had to make that apparition from devil" "I have said to mother and the nanny to come to drink a little champagne  therefore calm down" "Are champagne, not holy water" "Come in" "Oh!" "Bravo, come, come" "No, not here, go" "Giuliana must not be made tired." "You go also" "Let's go, Federico" "Indeed, does it not please you if we are here with you, Giuliana?" "The doctor has said that if you can move little, the effort would do you good" "Come, make an effort" "Come away, Federico" " For me" "Go on, see you later" "I want to prepare a beautiful christmas to make peace with mother" "You have some ideas" "Do not count on me, I won't be here" "So?" "You do not remain here for the festivities?" "Mother has told me for sure" "I am sorry to disappoint her but I have changed my mind" "I do not make it" "There is an atmosphere here, than does not appeal to me" "I wish well to all, but I too have my problems and I need to pass the few days leave that I have peacefully" "I will celebrate elsewhere" "He has fed" "I hoped to find him awake" "He is well covered?" "It seems to me that he has cold hands" " Shall we put his mittens on?" " No, no, Madam, do not worry ...he is beautifully warm" "He is fast asleep, do not have fear" "It is soothing for children to hear our voices  to know that are not alone" "I am going to sleep also , goodnight" "Goodnight, Madam." "Nights I spy on you and that I see you goto cosset it" "Scream to the four winds what you want , do not lie have at least the courage to say truth" "I have come here because I seemed to feel a call" "This has happened other times to me" "I seem to feel a call as if something had happened" "It is not true, you were seen also when you get up hidden in the dark  trying not to make noise" " What bad have I done?" "Also you come here in the night, the nanny has told me" "It's true, it's true" "But it is not the same thing" "I try to discover your secret by watching you" "I try to overcome, to forget." "But I do not succeed!" "Cursed be the day on which I accepted this torture" "You are not the same as when he is there." "You are happy!" "So why do I not satiate myself here to watch and you are not the cure for my suffering" "You I do love, and loving him you think and love his father" "You know that is not true" "I have even wished that he died when he was born" "That is horrible, but is so" "Also I feel anguish in his presence" "Yes, I also hate him for the suffering he brings to me" "You cannot see that, why do you not believe me?" "It's true, I hate him." "I swear" "You think thus?" "Yes, because he has been put between us  and I would want that you and I..." "Let's go away." "We will be happy away from here" "We will leave after Christmas." "I promise you" "Mother is downstairs." "We go to mass" " Fine." "I will wait for to you here" " Your cape, madam." "Take that away." "You do not wear my gift?" "It does not seem the right event, it is too opulent" "Nonsense, it pleases the peasants to see their masters well dressed." "The bells have already played twice Madam!" "We must hurry." " I am coming" "Nanny, you can go to mass if you want." "I remain here" "Thank you, Sir." "I will go." "The child is fast asleep." "Goodnight, Sir." "Happy Christmas" "Goodnight" "Giuseppe, serve supper immediately" "Of course,Madam..." "Immediately" "and so this Christmas is passed" "and we will leave here, as we have promised" "After Christmas, but when?" "When you want, tomorrow even" " Madam!" "Madam!" " What is it?" " Come." "The child does not breathe" " My God!" "He does not breathe!" "My God !" "?" "Oh my God !" "Oh my God!" "I do not want you to go in there" "Why?" "Stay with me, I am so afraid." "Come" "Mr. Hermil, Mr. Hermil!" "No!" "It is not true!" "It is not true!" "He is dead?" "Yes" "Get off, do not touch me" " I am not your accomplice" " Be quiet, Giuliana, I beg you" " It is you" " Why do you say this?" "You knew all" "The guilt is yours, yours." "I hate you" "Not, you have also said you hate him" "No, I wanted to save him, with all my strength, from you" " All I have done in order to save him" " But what are you saying" "Yes, everything I have done with you, I have only done in order to save him and now, and for the rest of my days  I will have to living with this sin on my spirit" "My God, help me!" "It will make you as unhappy as I am Tullio" "You lie to yourself ." "You have always wished him to die" "Not even a moment have I wished to be free of him  because I loved him" "My poor creature, a thousand times I disown those words" "And well that you know that , therefore you will understand that it is all ended" "I have loved and I will love always the father of that creature" "Until the end of my days, you I can only hate, hate  and despise you" "Is extraordinary, the faculty that women have   to adapt the truth to the romantic ideals of the worst literature" "The adventure of my wife with Filippo D'Arborio lasted... ..the time of a sigh" "So like many of your friends have said it would have been whimsy of our fashionable writer  that it has been his fate to catch a horrendous disease in Africa  that he has paid respect to his creator" "All here." "I am sorry to only have contributed   to supply elements for this pessimistic serial" "They will not think that really it would have been you to have caused the death of that innocent?" "I do see it as strange when a newly born child has  extraordinary resistance." "It takes more than the cold to kill it" "And therefore, do not make remorse" "If he is dead, it is sure because it had one..." "No, that does not have importance" "What more concerns me are the intentions that drive and in my intentions there are no possible doubts" "I have I acted with perfect clarity of conscience..." "I do not have remorse, I am not justifying it" "The justice of men does not touch me because ... no court on earth will be able to convict me" "I have bored you?" "Sorry" "Is still early." "We still can be together?" "you would give me great pleasure" "Your house pleases me" "You know how many times I have tried to imagine it  without ever succeeding" "It's strange, because it is similar" "Indeed" " With all that which is in you - so beautiful... and so ugly" "What is there ugly." "What we feel slowly without haste" "I must watch well  and to reflect" " you offer me something to drink?" " Sure" "So?" "You have decided?" "What is ugly in me?" "You want me to tell you let me drink" "I should not." "I have drunk a lot with supper... you have put to Me a lot of  melancholy" "Give me another" "A little ago you have asked to me what I thought about what you have told me" "Now I say to you" "I think you will always be in love with your wife" "Enamoured to make pity" "That is not my spirit." "I admit I have had, in these past months  a drunken, clouded experience, if you want morbid" "Only pure ones are capable of such excesses" "Think of the life of ascetics" "You are still enamoured of her" "Since the first time you were defeated you are still fighting  because he has died." "Poor Tullio" "But that nonsense you say?" "If there is one defeated in this lugubrious history  It is my wife" "she that decides to live with the ghosts of the cemetaries  instead of living her life freely" "Refusing to believe ... that our problems are resolved on the earth  and not in a hypothetical afterlife" "I instead am what I am" "Without illusions, without repentances" "The day in which I will no longer have pleasure for life  no curiosity  I would make an end of it." "There are those that say instead when the moment comes in which you stop living  you are only begun to exist" "But if of it we do not explain and if unfortunately we do not notice it  we hope for eternal life" "That is not my case, I swear" "What do you know of it?" "It will always be the same for you and instead we know nothing of what the future reserve us" "Not even a little" "... crazy with desire and jealousy" "I committed many platitudes..." "In order to suffocate my love for you" "Goodness knows because you men  with one hand us you want to always raise us to stars  and with the other drag us down?" "Why do you not let us walk beside you?" "Creature beside creature, woman beside her man" "None more, none less" "Sure" "I have decided to live with you..." "Live with me?" "But I do not love you more treasure" "You are a monster" "Not for what you have told me this evening" "Further, that is not the natural conclusion of all" "You are the most attractive man who has never held me in his arms  But if one day you persuaded me of being the arbitrator of my life  I would not want to feel dishonourable" "Now leave me Tullio" "What happens if I lived here?" "You sleep?" "Perhaps" "I have drunk too much" "Do not sleep." "I beg You" "Impossible." "I must sleep" "Do not sleep, Teresa" "I want to make you to see that I know how to finish"