WEGRAT
Some—yes.... And yet one can't help wanting to be young again, even at the risk of similar sorrows and struggles....
JULIAN
And even at the risk of also having to live through a lot of nice things over again.
WEGRAT
Indeed, those are the hardest things to bear, once they have turned into memories.—You have been in Italy again?
JULIAN
Yes, in Italy too.
WEGRAT
It's a long time now since I was there. Since we made that walk together through the Ampezzo Valley,[5 ] with the pack on our backs—to Pieve, and then right on to Venice. Can you remember? The sun has never again shone as brightly as it did then.