"Certainly I will be your friend."
"The Maestro is so old. Petronella is so foolish. We know none in Verona, and I can do nothing for my poor Guiseppe!"
"Your lover, Signorina?"
"Yes. I promised you should see him at Verona, but--now--ah now!--but perhaps you have heard him singing at the Ezzelino?"
"No; I have not been to the opera since my arrival here. What is the matter with him? Is he ill?"
"I know not! I know not! He is lost!"
"Lost?"
"Yes, Signore. My Guiseppe has disappeared and no one knows where he is!"
Could there be any connection between the disappearance of Guiseppe and the death of that young man I had seen in the fatal chamber? The thought flashed across me as she spoke, but I dismissed it as idle.
"And you want some one to look for Signor Pallanza?"