Adol. (aside to Vereconda). Who knows?... Ah! I have it: the schoolmaster at Borgo di Castello! (Exit.)
Ver. (aside). How one always recognises the country lout at once!
Pao. (aside). What a first-rate friend Adolfo is! And now that I am with his Graziosa’s mother, could I do him a service? I should be ungrateful if I did not try; but I too am a real friend.
Ver. (aside). He looks as though he had just come from the plough-tail.
Pao. Madam....
Ver. Sir?...
Pao. If you permit ... if I am not wearisome to you ... may I stay and talk to you a little?
Ver. Pray sit down.
Pao. To supply the place of my friend is no easy job.
Ver. (aside). How vilely he expresses himself!