"Do not touch me!" she said.
"Do you hate me so much, Lorenza!"
"Ask the victim how he likes the executioner."
"It is because I do not want to be one that I restrict your liberty a little. Could you come and go as you like, who can tell what your folly might drive you to."
"Wait till I am free some day, and see what I shall do!"
"Lorenza, you are behaving badly toward the husband whom you chose. You are my wife."
"That was the work of Satan."
"Poor crazy creature!" said the mesmerist, with a tender look.
"I am a daughter of Rome," continued she, "and some day I shall take revenge."
"Do you say that merely to frighten me?" he asked, gently shaking his head.