You may have the universe if I may have Italy.
No, mother; no. She was really keen on Italy. This travel is quite a crisis for her. He found the situation full of whimsical romance: there was something half attractive, half repellent in the though...
I suppose it had never struck him that, Ischia, which he looked at every evening to see what the weather would be like the next day, or Vesuvius, pearly in the dawn, had anything to do with him at all...