"But why not? It's not a sufficient reason to say that you don't love him."
"Look for another reason, then," she said.
"I'll find it."
Cesare Dias had spoken these words in a threatening tone, unusual to him. He rarely lost his temper.
After a long pause he asked, smiling sarcastically, "You are in love with some one else, I suppose?"
Anna did not answer. She wrung her hands and hid her eyes.
"Why don't you answer? You've fallen in love again, have you not?"
"Again? What do you mean?" she exclaimed.
"I mean that to explain your refusal of Luigi Caracciolo, you must be in love with some other man. You little girls believe that passion is everlasting. You believe in faithfulness that lasts, if not beyond the grave, at least up to its brink. Are you still in love with Giustino Morelli?"