"Hints that Madam Donetti dropped from time to time."
"This young man's name is Donetti?"
"He is known as Alphonse Donetti."
"An Italian name."
"Yes."
"Then you conclude his mother married an Italian?"
"Yes."
"Was he a sober, industrious young man?"
"No, he appeared to feel very much embittered at the idea of being poor. He claimed to be of high birth. Indeed I have suspected that his mother was a woman descended from a good old French family; at any rate the young man is very high-blooded, fond of gay life, and unable to gratify his desires."
"Did he ever to your knowledge commit a crime?"