The Procurator General's eyes rose perceptibly. "Married!"
"That is to say religiously married, which is all the Church thinks necessary."
"Ah, I see," said the Procurator General, suppressing a smile. "Still I must ask the lady to make her statement in her natal name."
"Go on, sir," said the Capuchin.
"Your intimacy with the Honourable Rossi has no doubt led him to speak freely on many subjects?"
"It has."
"He has perhaps told you that Rossi was not his father's name."
"Yes."
"That it was his mother's name, and though strictly his legal name also, he has borne it only since his return to Rome?"
"That is so."