“I judge for myself.”
“But if others speak ill of me?”
“It would not influence me——for long.”
She added the last words after a pause. She wished to be strictly truthful, and to-night she was not sure that the words of the priest had made no impression upon her.
“For long!” he repeated. Then he said abruptly, “The priest hates me.”
“No.”
“And Count Anteoni?”
“You interested Count Anteoni greatly.”
“Interested him!”
His voice sounded intensely suspicious in the night.