I know what it is like to be so block-headed." Dino had to laugh a little.
"Why do you suddenly think of our Trina ?" he asked.

"Do not worry about her, for mother is very good to her.

Just be happy, Cornelli, and do not imagine all kinds of things about block-headed Trina." Cornelli did not say another word, but Dino noticed that she kept on thinking just the same.

After a while the mother came to announce that it was time for Dino's rest.

The prospect of seeing each other again on the following day was a great consolation to them both.
Then Cornelli and the mother went back to the room where the sisters were sitting at their school work.