CHAPTER SEVENTY.

MEETING AGAIN.

On the fourteenth of April Romola was once more within the walls of Florence. Unable to rest at Pistoja, where contradictory reports reached her about the Trial by Fire, she had gone on to Prato; and was beginning to think that she should be drawn on to Florence in spite of dread, when she encountered that monk of San Spirito who had been her godfather's confessor. From him she learned the full story of Savonarola's arrest, and of her husband's death. This Augustinian monk had been in the stream of people who had followed the waggon with its awful burthen into the Piazza, and he could tell her what was generally known in Florence--that Tito had escaped from an assaulting mob by leaping into the Arno, but had been murdered on the bank by an old man who had long had an enmity against him. But Romola understood the catastrophe as no one else did. Of Savonarola the monk told her, in that tone of unfavourable prejudice which was usual in the Black Brethren (Frati Neri) towards the brother who showed white under his black, that he had confessed himself a deceiver of the people.

Romola paused no longer. That evening she was in Florence, sitting in agitated silence under the exclamations of joy and wailing, mingled with exuberant narrative, which were poured into her ears by Monna Brigida, who had backslided into false hair in Romola's absence, but now drew it off again and declared she would not mind being grey, if her dear child would stay with her.

1. Who did April learn the story of Savonarola's arrest from?
2. What else did he tell her?
3. What date was this?
4. Where was she once again?
5. What kind of reports did she receive?
6. About what?
7. Where did she move on to?
8. What kind of monk did she speak to?
9. What could he tell her about Florence?
10. From what?
11. How?
12. What happened to him after that?
13. By whom?
1. The monk of San Spirito
2. About her husband's death
3. On the fourteenth of April
4. Within the walls of Florence
5. Contradictory.
6. The Trial by Fire
7. Prato
8. An Augustinian monk
9. That Tito had escaped
10. An assaulting mob
11. Leaping into the Arno
12. He was murdered
13. an old man