1/32 If I were you, I would make some change, for your life must be growing monotonous, and besides, though I have not the least intention of reading you a lecture, you have really made your doings unnecessarily conspicuous of late. The Paris chroniclers have talked about you enough for the present. Don't you think so? I always told you that champagne was good for you." Marcello filled his glass and sipped the wine before he answered. |