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Updated: June 2, 2025
"You are a young girl; you must not roam the country at night. It is most perilous. Decent maidens and women are never abroad after moonrise." Nernia said nothing. "You will promise me never to go out at night again?" "I cannot promise that, sir." "Why?" "If I be wanted, I shall go." "If Adone Alba bid you is that your meaning?" Nernia was silent.
Gianna was distressed; from her chamber above she had heard the words which had passed between Adone's mother and Nernia, and knew the girl was gone. "I would condemn others, but not Adone and the child," she returned. "For sure they do not do right to have secrets from you, but they are not such secrets as you think." "Enough!" said Clelia Alba sternly. "The morning will show who is right.
The child looked tired and had lost her bright colour; but she had a resolute look on her face. "My poor little girl," he said gently to her, "Madonna Clelia is angered against you. We will hope her anger will pass ere long. Meanwhile you must not go to the house. You would not make ill-blood between a mother and her son?" "No," said Nernia.
Her face was stern and dark. Nernia did not answer; her gay courage forsook her; she trembled. "Why?" asked Adone's mother. "I was going out," answered the child. Her voice shook. She was clothed as usual in the daytime, but she had over her head a woollen wrapper. She had not her musket, for she kept it in the hen-house, and was accustomed to take it as she passed that place. "Going out!
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