“Thus, albeit straitly confined in a small enoughcage, Fabrizio led a fully occupied life; it was entirely devoted to seeking the solution of this important problem: ‘Does she love me?’ The result of thousands of observations, incessantly repeated, but also incessantly subjected to doubt, was as follows: ‘All her deliberate gestures say no, but what is involuntarily in the movement of her eyes seems to admit that she isforming an affection for me.’ ”