"The Senator must make everything over to you before it is sold," answered Malipieri calmly.
"How can he be made to do that?"
"I do not know, but he shall."
"Do you mean that the law can force him to?"
"The law might, perhaps, but I shall find some much shorter way."
Sabina was silent for a moment.
"But he employs you on this work," she said suddenly.
"Not exactly." Malipieri smiled. "I would not let Volterra pay me to grub underground for his benefit, any more than I would live in his house without paying him rent."
Sabina bit her lip and turned her face away suddenly, for the thoughtless words had hurt her.
"I agreed to make the search merely because I am interested in archaeology," he continued. "Until I met you I did not care what might become of anything we found in the palace."