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He asked Noemi if she were quite sure of what she said, and how she explained Signora Dessalle's fainting? Noemi answered that there was nothing to explain. Jeanne suffered from anæmia, and was subject to attacks of terrible weakness. Giovanni was silent, but he was not convinced. If this were really so, how could Noemi assert so positively that Don Clemente was not the man?
Another female voice was heard saying aloud to her: "What a child! You should have kept quiet!" Maria gave a little cry of joy and disappeared, running down the winding stairway. "You knew, Professor Dane?" Selva asked. Yes, Dane knew. He had made Signora Dessalle's acquaintance at her villa in the Veneto the villa containing the frescoes by Tiepolo and had recently seen her in Rome.
"Whose, Signora Dessalle's?" "Yes." "Her name is Jeanne." "About what age is she?" "I do not know. I should say from thirty to thirty-five." Maria was now completely at a loss to understand. The Padre put these questions with such indifference, such calmness! She herself risked a question. "Do you know her, Padre?" Don Clemente made no answer.
The Right Honourable Albacina was aware of his wife's friendship for Signora Dessalle as well as of Signora Dessalle's friendship for the Selvas, who in their turn were so devoted to Maironi. He had told his wife that he wished to speak with this lady, for reasons of his own, which he did not intend to reveal. He should expect her at the Ministry of the Interior soon after three o'clock.
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