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Donna Tullia had indeed been near to marrying
Giovanni, and in that sense, too, she might have been Orsino's mother.
"I fancied you spoke rather disparagingly," said Maria Consuelo with a
certain degree of interest.
"I? No indeed. On the contrary, Don Orsino is a very fine fellow--but
thrown away, positively thrown away in his present surroundings. Of what
use is all this English education--but you are a stranger, Madame, you
cannot understand our Roman point of view."
"If you could explain it to me, I might, perhaps," suggested the other.
"Ah yes--if I could explain it! But I am far too ignorant myself--no,
ignorant is not the word--too prejudiced, perhaps, to make you see it
quite as it is. Perhaps I am a little too liberal, and the Saracinesca
are certainly far too conservative. They mistake education for progress.
Poor Don Orsino, I am sorry for him."
Donna Tullia found no other escape from the difficulty into which she
had thrown herself.
"I did not know that he was to be pitied," said Maria Consuelo.


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