“How well you tie it,” she said.
He smiled.
“Si, signora.”
“Is it easy to untie?”
“Si, signora.”
“Show me, will you? It—it holds so well that I should have thought it would be difficult.”
He looked up at her with a flash of surprise. Something in her voice had caught his young attention sharply. She smiled at him when she saw the keen inquiry in his large eyes.
“I’m interested in all these little things you do so well,” she said.
He flushed with pride, and immediately untied the knot, carefully, showing her exactly how he did it.
“Thank you. I see. It’s very ingenious.”