“Do you want him, Signore? But he is not here to-day. He is at sea to-day.”
“I did want to speak to him.”
“But he is not a boatman, Signore. He does not go with the travellers. He is a fisherman.”
“Yes. Do you know his mother?”
“Si, Signore.”
“What is her name?”
“Bernari, Signore. She is married to Antonio Bernari, who is in prison.”
“In prison? What’s he been doing?”
“He is always after the girls, Signore. And now he has put a knife into one.”
The man shrugged his shoulders.