14/83 She would go and fetch something to drink, something to refresh their throats and her memory. _Che_! Nonsense! They had not come to drink, and they told her so, rudely. Two railway men, sitting at a table under the neighbouring pergola, were annoyed by this cross-examination. One of them called the hostess, and said to her, in a loud voice: "What is it they want to know? He left this morning at eight o'clock, with a girl, by the Pisa line." The crowd turned to him, questioning him now, and he swore, angrily, that he was telling the truth. |