5. 118-120). The pilgrim takes a step forward from the feeling of compassion towards Francesca, he wants to dig deeper into why this happened. Only now it seems that his tone of voice has changed, “but tell me” sounds direct and objective. He does this as he now questions his actions and uses "gentle sighs" to mark the event as unfortunate. I feel like he decides to take this approach in talking to her, to seek answers for himself. Dante longs for himself and wants to see if his feelings are justified (towards Beatrice) based on the feelings Francesca had towards Pablo. By using the word "yet" he acknowledges the eternity of this desire for something more than just love towards a person, saying that once you cross that line and go through a sexual desire you can't go back from