"Your hand—pouf! The nightingales sing there, I suppose."
"All night."
"And there is moonlight?"
"Floods of moonlight."
"Dio! Dio santissimo!" cried Nannina, striking her friend on the knee, "you must be out of this, Ippolita! This is unwholesome: I like not the smell of this. Faugh, fungus! Mawkish! I will see your father this very night."
Ippolita shook her head again. "My father is paid by these signori."
"Then the priest must do it. Father Corrado must do it."
"He dare not."
"A convent—?"
"No, never! That is worse than this. But—oh, Nannina! if I dared I would do such a thing."