Pendant trois jours il réfléchit ; le quatrième il revint à son raisonnement, qui lui semblait évident : « Le seul comte Mosca aura le cœur de me tenir parole parce que, en me faisant baron, il ne me donne pas ce qu’il estime ; secundo, en l’avertissant, je me sauve probablement un crime pour lequel je suis à peu près payé d’avance ; tertio, je venge les premiers coups humiliants qu’ait reçus le chevalier Rassi. »
For three days he reflected; on the fourth he returned to his original conclusion, which seemed to him self-evident: "Conte Mosca alone will have the heart to keep his word to me, because, in making me a Barone, he does not give me anything that he respects; secondly, by warning him, I save myself probably from a crime for which I am more or less paid in advance; thirdly, I have my revenge for the first humiliating blows which Cavaliere Rassi has received."