Note 6 — PADRE FILIPPO.
Reading edition
‘Nonsense; of course it was a dog,’ asseverated the narrator. ‘But when he went to her house and pretended to be in a bad way, and asked her to have pity on him, she only answered: “Not I, indeed! I’m not going to get myself into a scrape6 with the law, for him!” and drove him away. And he came and told Padre Filippo.