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The smile grew wider.
"What are you laughing at?"
"I don't know, Signorina."
"Do you think it is funny to be younger than I am?"
"Si, Signorina."
"I suppose you feel quite as if you were a man?"
"If I could not work as well as a man Giuseppe would not have taken me
into his boat. But of course with a lady it is all different. A lady
does not have to work. Poor women get old very soon, Signorina."
"Your mother, is she old?"
"My mamma! I don't know. Yes, I suppose she is rather old."
He seemed to be considering.
"Si, Signorina, my mamma is rather old. But then she has had a lot of
trouble, my poor mamma!"
"I am sorry. Is she like you?"
"I don't know, Signorina; I have never thought about it. What does it
matter?"
"It may not matter, but such things are interesting sometimes."
"Are they, Signorina?"
Then, evidently with a polite desire to please her and carry on the
conversation in the direction indicated by her, he added:
"And are you like your Signora Madre, Signorina?"
Vere felt inclined to smile, but she answered, quite seriously.


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