"I can."
"In fact you recognise in the illustrious Deputy the young man condemned in contumacy eighteen years ago?"
"I do."
"Perhaps in his letters or conversations he has even admitted the identity?"
"He has."
"Only one more question, Donna Roma," said the Procurator General, with another smile. "Your father's name in England was Doctor Roselli, and the name of his young confederate——"
"Courage, my child," whispered the Capuchin, taking Roma's ice-cold hand in his own trembling one.
"The name of his young confederate was——"
"David Leone," said Roma, lifting her eyes to the face of Father Pifferi.
"So David Leone and David Rossi are one and the same person?"