"What accident?"
"The Alpine catastrophe in which the poor little girl perished."
Ah, what a horrible smile of torture contracted Lucio's livid lips!
"There was no accident, there was no Alpine catastrophe. Miss Lilian Temple killed herself."
"Killed herself?" cried Vittorio, stupefied.
"She killed herself."
"Are you sure of it?"
"As of my life and death. She killed herself."
"Ah, how cruel! how atrocious!" broke in Vittorio.