"It is Dino, who stayed with Martha this summer." The father put down his spoon from pure surprise and looked wonderingly at his daughter.
"How strange you are, Cornelli!" he said finally.

"Now you suddenly want to visit a strange family.

You only know this boy and you do not hesitate about it and are not even shy about appearing in your present condition." "Dino knows me well and knows that I would come to see him alone.

He will arrange everything for me so that I won't have to see his mother or his sisters.

He knows everything," was Cornelli's explanation.
"That has no sense at all," the father said curtly, and gathering up his papers he went away.
Soon afterwards he entered Martha's little house.
"Here I am again.