Chapter 34
Quiet Dinner in SinalungaAt home on the farm in Sinalunga, the dinners were a bit quieter than in the past. Despite Dito's famous silence at the dinner table, Catrina noticed an even greater withdrawal with the absence of Paolo. Dito would occasionally glance at the chair left empty by Paolo, puff out a little grunt, then resume his meal.
Catrina kept up a mostly one-sided conversation, asking her husband about the vineyard and the prospects for next year. They both knew there would be little to say about the vines during winter, but Catrina didn't know what to talk about. During these lonely dinners, it occurred to her that for the better part of the preceding twenty years, most of her mealtime conversation was with her son, and now she had to acknowledge that her husband was
