(trying to console Lucrezia, who is in deep mourning after Paolo's "suicide" and is refusing to nurse her crying son) Please talk to me, my love. You are the light of my life... the light of this family's life. If that light goes... (clutches her hand, worried)
... I would ask just one thing of you, Father.
Anything.
(looks him straight in the eye) Permit my Paolo a Christian burial.
(closes his eyes quickly) He is a suicide- it is impossible. (Lucrezia sits up, holding a scrap of paper)
This note was pinned to his sleeve. (Alexander takes it and examines it)
Yes. A suicide note-
(angrily) But he could not read or write Father! (Alexander looks up at her, startled) My Paolo could not even pen his own name. (long pause)
... So, it was murder. (pause) Where is the murderer?
...Too close for comfort.
(sighs angrily) I will not have this family at war with itself!
(coldly) And I would have my Paolo saved, from the fires of Hell.
(nods resignedly)... And your infant must... feed.
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