Gildo: Now me, please. Teach me to speak English. What did you say is the English for Grazie?
Myself: Thank you.
Gildo: And Buona notte?
Myself: Good night.
Gildo (tentatively): Thank you. Good night.
Myself: Bravo, very good.
Caro: What does that mean?
Myself: Very good means—
Papa:—and this professor of ours told us that in consequence of certain natural—do I explain myself?—of certain natural causes, it is rare for a human being to live more than one hundred years. It is therefore unlikely that—
Aless:—and Paris is being besieged by—