Paolo. Painful? If I had burned, as you wished, those papers and then one day I should have discovered this love, who could then have lifted this suspicion from my mind?
Mario. The certainty makes you suspicious!
Paolo. What do you mean?
Mario. If you had feared this a year ago, that which has happened would not have occurred. I was wrong not to have opened your eyes. A long way off, perhaps Luciano would not have killed himself.
Paolo. But I would have lacked the proof.
Mario. Your tranquility costs much—to the others.
Paolo. You can't pretend that I should feel badly about the fate of Luciano?
Mario. I am not speaking of him.
Paolo. Of whom?
Mario. Of your wife. Think what she must be suffering!