"I am going to Borghi."
"But we had agreed that I was to see him."
"Very well, then, go!"
"But where are you going?"
"To find Borghi!" Then he added passionately, "I love her, and whoever tries to take her from me shall die!" And again he turned to go.
"But does she love you?" shouted Sardi, quite forgetting that they were in the public street.
And once more raising his strong, sinewy hands above his head, Mansana answered, in a hollow voice:
"She shall love me!"
Sardi grew alarmed.
"Giuseppe, you are mad! You have been over excited, and it is only this unnatural condition of your mind which causes you to feel and speak like this. You are not yourself, Giuseppe! Do not run away from me! Don't you see that you are attracting the attention of the people in the street?"