20/26 Go home, and get Mariuccia to give you some syrup of tamarind to cool your blood." "Well? When I was your age I had been in love twenty times. But I never fell in love at first sight--and with a doll; really a wax doll, you know, like the Madonna in the presepio that they set up at the Ara Coeli, at Epiphany." "A doll!" he cried. "Who is a doll, if you please ?" We stopped at the corner of the street to argue it out. |