33It is said the so-called "southerners" are very ceremonious, very attached to old traditions, much more inclined than others to express their sympathies and their affections.
I do not agree at all: my statement seems strange, but I pronounce it with confidence, without fear of making a mistake. More than once and perhaps even wrongly, I have criticized not only the way of acting, but even the way of thinking of anyone who was not in my part.
One day, suddenly, who did knock on the door of our house, when me and Claudia (she had come to pick me up, as usual) had just returned from the office? None other than Claudia's father coming expressly from Como. Between my father-in-law and me there had been some small divergence in the past but, despite my volatile and touchy character, I was ab
