"These sentiments do you honour, though they're somewhat exaggerated. Buy a book of manners, and learn that it's not the thing to listen at doors."
"It was my right to listen, do you understand? I was defending my love, my happiness, my all; but the terrible thing I saw has destroyed for ever everything I cared for."
"Did you really see such a terrible thing?" he asked, smiling.
"If I should live a thousand years, nothing could blot it from my mind. Oh, I shall die, I shall die; I can only forget it by dying."
"You are suffering from cerebral dilatation. It was nothing but a harmless scene of gallantry—it was a jest, Anna."
"Laura said that she loved you. I heard her."
"Of course, girls of her age always say they're in love."
"She kissed you, Cesare. I saw her."
"And what of that? Girls of her age are fond of kissing. They're none the worse for it."
"She was in your arms, Cesare, and for so long a time that to me it seemed a century."