"No, no, master; then I didn't lie."
"So you really love Scozzone?"
"Oh, yes, indeed I love her!" replied Pagolo, realizing that the only way of lessening his guilt in Cellini's eyes was to attribute his crime to the violence of his passion; "yes, I love her."
"And you say again that you were not lying when you proposed to marry her?"
"I was not lying, master."
"You would have made her your wife?"
"If she had not belonged to you, yes."
"Very well, then, take her: I give her to you."
"What do you say? You are joking, are you not?"
"No, I never spoke more seriously: look at me if you doubt it."