Mother. (He will not go!)

Luigi. You smile at me? 'T is true,—

Voluptuousness, grotesqueness, ghastliness,

Environ my devotedness as quaintly

As round about some antique altar wreathe

The rose festoons, goats' horns, and oxen's skulls.

Mother. See now: you reach the city, you must cross

His threshold—how?

Luigi. Oh, that's if we conspired!