“What do you mean?”
“I come to tell thee that thou art the last branch of the Rionuevos.”
“Yes, but adulterous.”
“You are mistaken: natural, and very natural.”
“That may be, but who is to prove it?”
“Precisely what I am about to tell thee.”
“Speak!”
“Listen, and do not interrupt me. The Countess is the stumbling-block in thy existence.”
“I know it.”
“She holds thy happiness in her hands.”