"Do you mean that killing other men is great and good, Maryska?"
Her face wore a pensive attitude, but she still had one eye upon the comestibles.
"I think they are a brave people. I think it is great and good to fight for your country."
"Well, wouldn't the Americans fight for theirs?"
"Perhaps; I don't know. You are all too clever to think about anything but money. He says so."
"Isn't money a very good thing to think about?"
She looked at him with great contempt.
"I was not born a shopkeeper," she said, and then, "Ask poppa and hear what he will say."
He nodded his head.
"Why has poppa come to Ranovica?"