« Est-il bien possible, se disait Fabrice en revenant au palais Sanseverina, que ce soit là l’homme qui a fait hâter le supplice de ce pauvre comte Palanza ! »
"Is it really possible," Fabrizio asked himself as he made his way back to the palazzo Sanseverina, "that this is the man who hurried on the execution of that poor Conte Palanza?"