It always appears quite easy for Nino, and he does not squeak like a dying pig as all the other tenors do on that note.

He was looking up as he sang it, wondering whether it would have any effect.

Apparently Hedwig lost her head completely, for she gently opened the casement and looked out at the moonlight opposite, over the carved stone mullions of her window.

The song ended, he hesitated whether to go or to sing again.

She was evidently looking towards him; but he was in the light, for the moon had risen higher, and she, on the other side of the street, was in the dark.
"Signorina!" he called softly.