If ever I have power I will see to it.

They shall be fewer but better fed.
Now, Ana, be seated.

I know you though you do not know me, and already I have learned to love you through your writings.

Tell me of yourself." So I told him all my simple tale, to which he listened without a word, and then asked me why I had come to see him.

I replied that it was because he had sent for me, which he had forgotten; also because I brought him a story that I had dared to dedicate to him.