« – Oui, mademoiselle ; mais en revanche la distribution manquait trois fois la semaine, et comme les paysans chez lesquels nous logions étaient encore plus misérables que nous, nous leur donnions un peu de notre pain.
"'Yes, Signorina; but to make up for that the issue ran short three days in the week, and as the peasants on whom we were billeted were even worse off than ourselves, we used to hand on some of our bread to them.'