human
Yes, I saw you, you naughty, inconstant boy, when you little thought my eye was upon you. I saw you with--Ludovico, there is something wrong, she said, suddenly changing her laughing tone for one of alarm as her eye marked the expression of his face.
gpt
I am sure from the way you look at me there is something amiss. What is it, Ludovico mio? What has happened to vex you?
human
A great and terrible misfortune has happened, my Paolina; and I have run to you in all haste that you might not hear it from any lips but my own. You were going to say just now that you saw me with Bianca Lalli, were you not? Where and when did you see us?
gpt
In a bagarino, driving towards the Pineta. I was up at a high window in the church on the scaffolding prepared for my work,
human
Ah! you saw us from the window. I took her there at her request to see the Pineta. We started on leaving the ball-room. In the forest she became sleepy: I left her sleeping on a bank, and meaning to return to her in a few minutes. I could not find the spot again for some time; and when I did find it she was gone. After searching the wood in vain for hours I returned to the city, and--at the gate--not an hour ago--I saw her brought in--dead!
gpt
Dead! La Bianca dead!