INDEX Prologue. Chapter One. The Shipwrecked Stranger. Chapter Two. Breakfast for Love. Chapter Three. The Barber’s Shop. Chapter Four. First Impressions. Chapter Five. The Blind Scholar and his Daughter. Chapter Six. Dawning Hopes. Chapter Seven. A Learned Squabble. Chapter Eight. A Face in the Crowd. Chapter Nine. A Man’s Ransom. Chapter Ten. Under the Plane-Tree. Chapter Eleven. Tito’s Dilemma. Chapter Twelve. The Prize is nearly grasped. Chapter Thirteen. The Shadow of Nemesis. Chapter Fourteen. The Peasants’ Fair. Chapter Fifteen. The Dying Message. Chapter Sixteen. A Florentine Joke. Chapter Seventeen. Under the Loggia. Chapter Eighteen. The Portrait. Chapter Nineteen. The Old Man’s Hope. Chapter Twenty. The Day of the Betrothal. Chapter Twenty One. Florence expects a Guest. Chapter Twenty Two. The Prisoners. Chapter Twenty Three. After-Thoughts. Chapter Twenty Four. Inside the Duo. Chapter Twenty Five. Outside the Duomo. Chapter Twenty Six. The Garment of Fear. Chapter Twenty Seven. The Young Wife. Chapter Twenty Eight. The Painted Record. Chapter Twenty Nine. A Moment of Triumph. Chapter Thirty. The Avenger’s Secret. Chapter Thirty One. Fruit is Seed. Chapter Thirty Two. A Revelation. End of the First Volume. Chapter Thirty Three. Baldassarre makes an Acquaintance. Chapter Thirty Four. No Place for Repentance. Chapter Thirty Five. What Florence was thinking of. Chapter Thirty Six. Ariadne discrowns herself. Chapter Thirty Seven. The Tabernacle Unlocked. Chapter Thirty Eight. The Black Marks become Magical. Chapter Thirty Nine. A Supper in the Rucellai Gardens. Chapter Forty. An Arresting Voice. Chapter Forty One. Coming Back. Chapter Forty Two. Romola in her Place. Chapter Forty Three. The Unseen Madonna. Chapter Forty Four. The Visible Madonna. Chapter Forty Five. At the Barber’s Shop. Chapter Forty Six. By a Street Lamp. Chapter Forty Seven. Check. Chapter Forty Eight. Counter-Check. Chapter Forty Nine. The Pyramid of Vanities. Chapter Fifty. Tessa Abroad and at Home. Chapter Fifty One. Monna Brigida’s Conversion. Chapter Fifty Two. A Prophetess. Chapter Fifty Three. On San Miniato. Chapter Fifty Four. The Evening and the Morning. Chapter Fifty Five. Waiting. Chapter Fifty Six. The Other Wife. Chapter Fifty Seven. Why Tito was Safe. Chapter Fifty Eight. A Final Understanding. Chapter Fifty Nine. Pleading. Chapter Sixty. The Scaffold. Chapter Sixty One. Drifting Away. Chapter Sixty Two. The Benediction. Chapter Sixty Three. Ripening Schemes. Chapter Sixty Four. The Prophet in his Cell. Chapter Sixty Five. The Trial by Fire. Chapter Sixty Six. A Masque of the Furies. Chapter Sixty Seven. Waiting by the River. Chapter Sixty Eight. Romola’s waking. Chapter Sixty Nine. Homeward. Chapter Seventy. Meeting Again. Chapter Seventy One. The Confession. Chapter Seventy Two. The Last Silence. Epilogue.