The government may try its best to arrange fixed prices, but every one who goes sightseeing must be prepared to part with a good deal in the way of small change.

The guides are not such brigands as they used to be, thank goodness.

Thirty or forty years ago I suppose it was hopeless to come unless you brought a courier with you from Naples to keep the others off.

Well, you have your little souvenirs of Vesuvius at any rate, even if they've turned out rather expensive ones.

They're something to keep, aren't they ?" "I wouldn't have given up mine if they'd asked me twenty dollars for it," declared Peachy, fondling the nickel coin set in the lump of lava.
"I don't understand the Neapolitans," frowned Irene.