The husband protested high, tried to console her, told her that these were dreams, visions of a mind diseased, the assured that he no longer loved Mary, that if he loved, his manner than, those of his blunders they would have produced the ‘effect of a cold shower. This animated talking too, passed quickly from sweetness to anger, he wanted to convince her with pats and could disdainful, never arrived to inspire confidence, and spent part of the night scenes or to make complaints; the morning were pale and exhausted, and Silvio who wanted to show themselves indifferent, seemed spiteful, and seemed more embarrassed than before in his dialogues with the cousin.

So ended the carnival, Lent and finally came to take away the nightmare that oppressed them, the cousins ​​left Venice, and order was restored in the small family, where Matilda released by the sight of Mary, distracted by the company of her mother, showed less jealous and more tolerant with her husband, who had quietly resumed his duties suppletorie the stove, and lived in the triple task of busy lawyer, a journalist and a cook, working diligently with his pen and glue trowel rifritture between the hole, the mess of politics, and processes of the kitchen.
 
A successful event was to break the monotony of their existence. A welcome revelation to Matilda announced the joys of motherhood. The good news rides post, brought contentment to his grandmother and father Gervase, aroused the envy of his cousins, attracted the cordial congratulations of the relatives of Brianza, and all friends of the family.