– Mes amis, dit-elle aux domestiques rassemblés, j’apprends que mon pauvre neveu va être condamné par contumace pour avoir eu l’audace de défendre sa a vie contre un furieux ; c’était Giletti qui voulait le tuer.
"My friends," she said to the assembled servants, "I learn that my poor nephew is to be condemned in his absence for having had the audacity to defend his life against a raging madman; I mean Giletti, who was trying to kill him.