‘The bakery! Let’s go to the bakery!’ was the cry.
In the street called the Corsia de’ Servi, there is still today a bakery which bears the same name that it did then. In Tuscan it would be called the ‘Forno delle Grucce’; but in the Milanese dialect its name is made up of [...]

‘Why, you must be trying to make us laugh!’ said Agnese.
‘That’s true enough; for it seems to me that the season for laughter is with us now, and none too soon at that. We’ve seen some ugly times, my dear young people, ugly times in plenty…we may fairly hope for better things during the [...]

‘What about me? What am I supposed to have learned? I didn’t go out of my way to look for trouble; troubles came to look for me…Unless you’d like to say,’ she added with her sweet and gentle smile, ‘that I did make a mistake after all - the mistake of being fond [...]