Il s’approcha d’elle et prononça à demi-voix et comme se parlant à soi-même, deux vers de ce sonnet de Pétrarque, qu’il lui avait envoyé du lac Majeur, imprimé sur un mouchoir de soie :
He approached her and repeated, in an undertone and as though he were speaking to himself, two lines from that sonnet of Petrarch which he had sent her from Lake Maggiore, printed on a silk handkerchief: