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the brim of the glass?" "Well couldn't I depend upon him to stop crossed out: at that p when ^the glass is about to overflow there isn't room for any more?"

  "No, that's just the point!" said the Signore,

sharply. "He has to keep on pouring and you should know the rules of hospitality."

  "It makes me think of the Sorcerer's Apprentice

What do the rules say? What do I do if this terrible thing should happen?" "You must say "Per carita!"

  But one evening as I was coming home

I crossed out: met found Corti at the entrance to the building. "I have been waiting. crossed out: for you. I want to say something to you. I love you with all my heart. Do you know what that means, to love with all one's heart?"

inserted in pencil: Chapter 3 However quaint and pretty the "rules of hospitality" seemed to an inexperienced visitor, to many intellectual Italians they formed a detail in the palmistry of a country which, for all