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"Stay with me all day; we will go to the opera together. We will not set out for Friuli; your presence will no doubt enable me to endure Cataneo's," said Massimilla. Though this would be torment to her lover's soul, he consented with apparent joy.
At a gesture on Cataneo's part, as he seemed inclined to dispute this order, which was given with an action worthy of Semiramis, the part in which la Tinti had won her fame, the prima donna flew at the old ape and put him out of the room. "If you do not leave me in quiet this evening, we never meet again. And my never counts for more than yours," she added.
At half-past seven on the following evening, the spectators were again in their places in the theatre, excepting that those in the pit always took their chances of where they might sit. Old Capraja was in Cataneo's box. Before the overture the Duke paid a call on the Duchess; he made a point of standing behind her and leaving the front seat to Emilio next the Duchess.
The most interesting of these were, in the first place, the eccentricities of Lord Byron, of whom the Venetians made great sport; then Cataneo's attachment for la Tinti, for which no reason could be assigned after twenty different causes had been suggested; then Genovese's debut; finally, the tilting match between the Duchess and the French doctor.
The Prince of Varese found cigars at the Duchess Cataneo's; how gladly would he have laid the treasures of the world at her feet! She studied all his caprices, and was happy to gratify them. He made his only meal at her house his supper; for all his money was spent in clothes and his place in the Fenice.
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