"So that beautiful necklace which you sent her for a New Year's present was all for nothing?"
"As far as I am concerned."
"Will you break with her entirely?"
"There is nothing between us to break, that I know of."
"Well, then, since you speak so plainly, I may tell you something which you perhaps know already. Your love for the Signora has hitherto kept me silent; but now that you have altered your mind about her, I can no longer keep the secret from you. You are deceived."
"By whom?"
"By the artful singer. She would divide her favors between your Royal
Highness and a Jew."
"A Jew?"
"Yes! with the son of Abraham Levi."
"Is that rascal everywhere?"