"I am almost blind, but I was sure I knew your voice." "You are in Naples, and you have not let me know it ?" said Bosio, reproachfully and interrogatively.
"I have not been in Naples two hours, and have just left my bag at my usual quarters with Don Matteo.

Then I came here to get a cup of coffee, and now I was going to you.

Besides, it is the tenth of December.

You know that I always come on the tenth every year, and stay until the twentieth, in order to be back in Muro four days before Christmas.

But I am glad I have met you here, for I should have missed you at the Palazzo." "Yes," said Bosio, "I am glad that we have met.