'But why, friend? If you can harbour a doubt, you would not believe me.'
'Oh, Messer Leonardo, I am in torture ... A word, a single word!'
Leonardo did not answer immediately; then he said in a shaking voice:—
'You also, Giovanni, with them! You, also, against me!'
Outside the blows were such that the whole house shook. Scarabullo was forcing the door with an axe. Leonardo, hearing the imprecations and the insults of the infuriated crowd, felt his heart contracted with anguish and great solitude. His chin drooped, and his glance fell on the lines just written: 'O mirabile giustizia di te, Primo Motore!'
He smiled, and with great humility repeated the words of the dying Gian Galeazzo:—
'All is well. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.'