She was always busy. That year Rino compelled her to enroll in school again, but again she almost never went and again she failed. Her mother asked her to help in the house, her father asked her to be in the shop, and she, all of a sudden, instead of resisting, seemed in fact content to labor for both. The rare times we saw each other -- on Sunday after Mass or walking between the public gardens and the stradone -- she displayed no curiosity about my school, and immediately started talking intensely and with admiration about the work that her father and brother did.

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