Le lendemain, dans la conversation par les alphabets, Clélia ne lui fit pas de reproches ; elle lui apprit que le danger du poison diminuait ; le Barbone avait été attaqué et presque assommé par les gens qui faisaient la cour aux filles de cuisine du palais du gouverneur, probablement il n’oserait plus reparaître dans les cuisines.
Next day, in their conversation by the alphabets, Clelia made him no reproach; she told him that the danger of poison was growing less; Barbone had been attacked and almost killed by the men who were keeping company with the kitchen-maids of the governor's palazzo; probably he would not venture to appear in the kitchens again.