When one of them was in good spirits and the other was not, peace was not broken; but if both chanced to be out of sorts, collisions resulted from causes so trifling as to be incomprehensible. Often afterwards they could not remember what they had quarrelled about.
Quando l’uno era di buon umore e l’altro di cattivo, la pace non veniva turbata ma quando tutti e due erano di cattivo umore, allora gli urti venivano fuori da così incomprensibili cause e così inconsistenti, che dopo non riuscivano in nessun modo a ricordare per quale motivo avessero litigato.