The following day, when Rhea went to the University of Siena, in search of professor Fino, she found out that it was professor Fino’s day off. Although the people at the information counter, provided her with the professor’s contact number, they respectfully but sternly declined her request for his residential address. So, she had to put all her hopes into calling the professor, to request an audience with him.
To her utter delight, the good professor graciously granted her an appointment with him for that very afternoon, when he found out that she wanted to ask him questions about his student, Antonio.
At ten minutes to four p.m. in the afternoon Rhea's cab dropped her in front of the gates of the professor's house. When Rhea knocked on the quaint, Prussian blue front door of Professor
