« Huit jours après, continuait Robert, quand il fut bien avéré que les Français ne guillotinaient personne, le marquis del Dongo revint de son château de Grianta, sur le lac de Côme, où bravement il s’était réfugié à l’approche de l’armée, abandonnant aux hasards de la guerre sa jeune femme si belle et sa sœur.
"A week later," Robert went on, "when it was satisfactorily established that the French were not guillotining anyone, the Marchese del Dongo returned from his castle of Grianta on the Lake of Como, to which he had gallantly retired on the approach of the army, abandoning to the fortunes of war his young and beautiful wife and his sister.