Benvenuta. May I have just what I like?
Beelzebubb. Certainly you may, my dear—if you are ready to pay for it.
Benvenuta. I am ready. And I should like a little coat like the one on the second of the Magi in the Adoration by Bellini that is over the altar in our chapel at home—in the house of the Duke Loredano.
Beelzebubb. Let me understand exactly. The coat is to be like the coat on the second figure to the left from the center of the picture?
Benvenuta. Yes—no, there's a Saint Joseph also at the back. He would be the third—from the Holy—
Beelzebubb. I pray you, keep the names of these people out of it.
Benvenuta. These people!
[Benvenuta's hand moves as if she were about to cross herself.]
Beelzebubb. And let your hand fall. You were about to make—to make some sort of sign with it. These practices are very distasteful to me. I cannot help you—or even stay for an interview—if you persist in them.
Benvenuta. I beg your forgiveness. I had no intention—