Who could be happier than they?
What with entertainments and parties, the hours, the days, the weeks passed like lightning.
"Oh, what a beautiful life this is!" said Pinocchio each time that, by chance, he met his friend Lamp-Wick.
"Was I right or wrong ?" answered Lamp-Wick.

"And to think you did not want to come! To think that even yesterday the idea came into your head to return home to see your Fairy and to start studying again! If today you are free from pencils and books and school, you owe it to me, to my advice, to my care.

Do you admit it?
Only true friends count, after all." "It's true, Lamp-Wick, it's true.

If today I am a really happy boy, it is all because of you.

And to think that the teacher, when speaking of you, used to say, 'Do not go with that Lamp-Wick! He is a bad companion and some day he will lead you astray.'" "Poor teacher!" answered the other, nodding his head.