He spent more than a month in this state, then began to deteriorate, and had lost consciousness for several days, when the repeated instances of the family was allowed to visit him.

The relatives they left for Mantua. The day after their arrival, the captain, his face haggard, but proud, led his wife and daughter, who seemed out of a grave, and walked mutually supporting, through the dingy, infected corridors of the prison, under cover of a actuary and of a jailer. The patient did not know anyone, did not see the poor relatives that a cadaverous face, covered with a clammy sweat, with a shortness of breath, which was the only sign of life he had left.

Beppina fell on that filthy straw, fainting, and even the poor mother was about to faint. They left the infirmary, supported by her husband Magdalene, and Beppina carried by two nurses. Lay the poor women in a coach that led them to the hotel. Immediately called a doctor, Mary Magdalene made a superhuman effort to assist the daughter in law, holding just the legs.

Beppina was four months pregnant. When he came to the house for permission to visit the dying, parents are ready to go, had a vivid journey of opposition to the daughter, of whom knew the dangerous condition, worsened by the despair of her husband’s imprisonment, and serious about his illness , who had been sent from Mantua. But all resistance was vain, not earned, nor the doctor’s reasons persuasive, nor the most affectionate advice of in-laws, it is so irritated against anyone who wanted to prevent it to revise its Stefano, who finally seemed less dangerous to take her with them that leave home in the throes of despair.