“A bad sign!” Laura sighed. “If he had taken me out for explanation! But tell me, my Agostino, are you the woman's dupe?”
“I have been,” Agostino admitted frankly.
“You did really put faith in her?”
“She condescends to be so excessively charming.”
“You could not advance a better reason.”
“It is one of our best; perhaps our very best, where your sex is concerned, signora.”
“You are her dupe no more?”
“No more. Oh, dear no!”
“You understand her now, do you?”
“For the very reason, signora, that I have been her dupe. That is, I am beginning to understand her. I am not yet in possession of the key.”