“You will leave me at the church Della Vittoria. I will pray there and walk home; it is only a few steps from home.”
“And what am I to do? It is for you to decide what I am to do.”
“Leave to-day for Caserta. In five or six days you will return to Naples, you and Caterina. By that time I.... shall have thought. But do not attempt to write to me or see me; do not ask me for appointments....”
“You hate me, don’t you?”
“I love you madly. But I must be left to myself for a time.”
“You don’t hate me for the harm I have done you?”
“Alas, no. We are all liable to do evil.”
“Not you; I am evil, but I love you.”
“Andrea, we have arrived; stop.”
“Lucia, remember that there is no way out of it. We must go away, absolutely. Give me a kiss, oh, my bride!”