21.
From a distance the size of the volcano struck every visitor.
Mount Etna is one nature’s most impressive and frightening expressions.
Greta decided to climb Mount Etna on a warm afternoon. She postponed that meeting for days, but at that stage she felt there was no point in waiting any longer.
She was Sicilian, but she had never come so close to the heart of her homeland: 'a muntagna was alone like Greta and in the intimacy of that unusual encounter it immediately showed itself to the girl, free from that discretion which is natural on the first date: the slightly inclined slopes that rose gently up to a height where the air was starting to be cooler contrasted with the very steep sides, so as to give the impression, all of a sudden, to be hasty to climb higher, as far as the sky.
