“Forgetting all?”
“Forgiving you everything.”
“After three years of public scandal, of life together with Marco Fiore in the same city, under his eyes—my husband would do this?”
“He would do it because he believes in the law of pardon.”
“Knowing that I do not love him?”
“Knowing it quite well.”
“That I shall never love him?”
“Who can tell that?”
“I!” she proclaimed. “I shall never love him, and he knows it.”
“In spite of that, he desires to pardon you, and to give you back all that you have lost by your passion.”