"You know also that my older brother, Pier-Angelo, was forced to leave Sicily eighteen years ago?"
"I know it. It was his own fault! My father was still alive. He might have joined him instead of abandoning his country."
"You are mistaken; your father was dead. You were an infant, I was a monk! There was nothing to be done here."
"Go on."
"My brother returned, as you know, a year ago; and his son, Michelangelo here, returned a week ago."
"What for?"
"To assist his father in his trade and his country on occasion. But there is already a denunciation hanging over him as well as over his father. The cardinal still has his memory, and does not forgive. Ninfo is prepared to act in his name."
"What are they waiting for?"
"I don't know why the cardinal is waiting so long before dying, but I can say that Ninfo is waiting for the cardinal's death."
"Why?"