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[Takes his hand.] Who knows? Do you understand what it is to give a thing?

To give? Yes.

While you have a thing it can be taken from you.

By robbers? No?

But when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. [He bends his head and presses his son's hand against his cheek.] It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

But, pappie?

Yes?

How could a robber rob a cow? Everyone would see him. In the night, perhaps.

In the night, yes.

Are there robbers here like in Rome?

There are poor people everywhere.

Have they revolvers?