Fabrizio thinks that the woman's husband, the king's counselor, Marquise Bouville, is involved in the conspiracy. What he doesn't know is that the name written on the list is Lucrezia's, and not her husband's. In fact, she's plotting to help her lover steal the documents by misleading the Count Ristori : when he arrives in Turin, Fabrizio is captured. He manages to escape but gets hurt and falls into a river.
