This highly theatrical technique—in which DeFlores witnesses Beatrice’s private moment and then has his own aside with the audience—shows just how much dishonesty and trickery is brewing in this castle. In other words, even the audience is forced to distrust appearances—Beatrice might seem to be alone onstage, but that, too, could be a trick. DeFlores’s concept that one bad act will lead to other bad acts will be proven true as the plot goes on.