human
She is dead, Signor Marchese,
gpt
Dead--La Bianca dead! I don't believe it. It is some scheme for frustrating the purpose you disapproved of--some plan managed between you and my nephew. You have sent her away, and want to persuade me that she is dead.
human
Your mind is unhinged by the shock of my intelligence, Signor Marchese--naturally enough--or such an absurd notion would not have occurred to you. I have seen the dead body of Bianca Lalli. It is now in the custody of the police,
gpt
The police!
human
Necessarily so; for, Signor Marchese, the unhappy--the miserable truth is that a foul murder has been committed. The girl was murdered in the Pineta this morning.
gpt
Murdered! Gracious heaven! Murdered--but why murdered? Why may she not have died by a natural death?--that is--I mean--of course I mean, if there were no evident marks of violence on the body.
human
There were, in truth, no marks of evident violence on the body, or, at least, none such as an unskilled eye would observe on a very superficial examination. But all that will be ascertained at the medical examination, which will take place to-morrow morning. But I think it can hardly be doubted that the death was not a natural one,
gpt
And the Marchese Ludovico?