IV.Caterina Lieti entered, looking tiny in her furs; with her pink face peeping from under her fur cap.
“Make haste, dear; it’s late.”
“No, dear; it’s no good going to my poor people before four; it’s hardly two o’clock.”
“We are going elsewhere.”
“Where?”
“Somewhere where we shall amuse ourselves.”
“I’m not going, I don’t want to amuse myself; I am more inclined to cry.”
“Why?”
“I don’t know.... I feel miserable.”
“Oh! poor, poor thing. Now listen to me, you’d better come with me and try to amuse yourself. You will injure your health by always staying in this dark room, in this perfumed atmosphere.”
“My health is gone, Caterina,” said the other in a comfortless tone; “every day I get thinner.”
“Because you do not eat, dear; you ought to eat; Andrea says so too.”
“What does And
