19/66 I shall return in fifteen minutes. Books? In a quarter of an hour I shall be here and I will have your reply. I wish it, do you hear? And on the threshold with another smile, using that time a term of patois common in Northern Italy and which is only a corruption of 'schiavo' or servant: 'Ciao Simpaticone.' "What a woman!" said Peppino Ardea, when the door was closed upon the Countess. |