"Let your Delegate see if there is not a letter among them from Rossi to Bruno's wife—you understand?"
"I do."
"If such a letter can be found let it be sent to the Under Prefect to add to his report for to-morrow's trial, and let the Public Prosecutor read it to the prisoner."
"It shall be done, your Excellency."
XVI
At eight o'clock the next morning Roma was going into the courtyard of the Castle of St. Angelo when she met the carriage of the Prime Minister coming out. The coachman was stopped from inside, and the Baron himself alighted.
"You look tired, my child," he said.
"I am tired," she answered.
"Hardly more than a month, yet so many things have happened!"
"Oh, that! That's nothing—nothing whatever."