"Ebbene?"
"Ebbene, signorino, to-night there is a festa in their house. It is the festa of Pancrazio, her cousin. Sebastiano will be there to play, and they will dance, and—"
"Lucrezia wants to go?"
"Si, signore, but she is afraid to ask."
"Afraid! Of course she can go, she must go. Tell her. But at night can she come back alone?"
"Signore, I am invited, but I said—I did not like the first evening that the padrona is away—if you would come they would take it as a great honor."
"Go, Gaspare, take Lucrezia, and bring her back safely."
"And you, signore?"
"I would come, too, but I think a stranger would spoil the festa."
"Oh no, signore, on the contrary—"