Think about it." She left the room rather abruptly, and Bianca did not refer to the subject again.

She had the power, rare in either of two friends, of not asking questions.

Confidence given for the asking, however readily, is but the little silver coin of friendship; the gold is confidence unasked.
In the days that followed, Gianluca wrote to Veronica again and again, about all manner of subjects which had come up in their conversation; and Veronica's short notes of thanks grew longer, until she found that she, too, was beginning to write real letters, and looked forward to writing them, as well as to receiving his.

And his came oftener, until she had one almost every day.
But when he came, as he did, twice a week, to the villa, they rarely spoke of their correspondence.

Somehow it had come to be a bond linking certain sides of their natures which they did not show to each other when they met and talked.