He was, at the same time, strongly, but perhaps not altogether
consistently, impressed with the fact; that during the whole of his
interview with her, she did not once distinctly and directly deny
that she had had anything to do with the crime. When warning her, as
he had been charged by Ludovico to do, of the probability that she
might be arrested, he had allowed her to understand that the
circumstances of this case were such, that the question of who was
the guilty person became nearly an alternative one between herself
and the Marchese. On which, instead of protesting her own innocence,
she had strongly insisted on that of Ludovico, which seemed a very
suspicious circumstance to the Baron Manutoli.
He had tried to lead her to express some feeling, or, rather, some
remembrance of what had been her feeling when she saw Ludovico and
La Bianca in the bagarino together; but there she became reticent,
and would say little or nothing--another suspicious circumstance in
the eyes of the Baron, so that, when he quitted her, he was, upon
the whole, rather confirmed than otherwise in his previous opinion
as to her guilt.
"Well, Signorina," he had said, in rising to leave her, "I came
here, in compliance with my friend's request, to re-assure you on
the subject of the warrant which will, in all probability, be issued
to-morrow morning for your arrest.
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