"Do you see something ?" Benedetto did not reply immediately.

The Professor raised the lamp, and bent over him.

Then Benedetto turned his face and looked at Mayda with an expression of intense desire, and after gazing at him a long time, sighed: "Ah, Professor! Indeed you must come where I am going!" "But do you know where you are going ?" Mayda said.
"I know," Benedetto replied, "that I am parting with all that is corruptible, all that is burdensome." He then inquired if some one had gone to the parish church.

Not yet: only a quarter of an hour had passed.

He apologised.