"I was only swimming under water."
He looked at Gaspare. He longed to do something to comfort him, but he realized that such violence could not be checked by anything. It must wear itself out.
"And he thought I was dead!"
"Per Dio! And if you had been!"
He wrinkled up his face and spat.
"What do you mean?"
"Has he got a knife on him?"
He threw out his hand towards Gaspare.
"I don't know to-day. He generally has."
"I should have had it in me by now," said Salvatore.