– Je te demande un mois, reprit Fabrice, pour prendre congé de Mme C. de Novare et, ce qui est encore plus difficile, des châteaux en Espagne de toute ma vie.
"I ask for a month," Fabrizio went on, "in which to take leave of Signora C----, of Novara, and, what will be more difficult still, of all the castles I have been building in the air all my life.