"Why should I be tired, I wonder?"
"Sitting up all night with me. Your big burden is very troublesome, doctor."
"Tut! You mustn't talk like that."
"If all jailors were as good to their prisoners as mine are to me!"
"And if all prisoners were as good to their jailors.... But I forbid that subject. I absolutely forbid it.... Ah, here comes your breakfast."
A soldier in uniform trousers and a linen jacket and cap had come in with a tray on which there was a smoking basin.
"You are from Sicily, aren't you, cook?"
"Yes, from Sicily, Signora."
Roma leaned back to Elena and said in an undertone, "That's where he has gone to, isn't it?"
"Some people say so, but nobody knows where he is."