I'll have to spend my time behind the school house walls, regretting all that I have lost." "But you are not going away," said Cornelli with dismay.
It had never occurred to her that this happy companionship could ever end.
"Yes, I have to.

If I could, I would stay here much longer with our good friend Martha.

She is better than anybody I know except my mother, and she takes care of me as if I were a silkworm." "Yes, and when you go, everything is over," said Cornelli, speaking as if Dino were her enemy.

Her eyes glowed at him from under her hair and she seemed to be accusing him of some bitter wrong.

She now turned away, as if to say: Now I do not want to hear of anything more.