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As a child he used to visit us with his father and was the despair of my brother Berto and me.
His father had always aspired to the hand of Aunt Scolastica, ever since he was a young man, but she would have none of it, and this had been her attitude to all her suitors. This was not because she felt unable to fall in love, but because the vaguest suspicion that a man she loved might betray her, even in thought alone, would have driven her to crime (she used to say). Men, according to her, were all false, knaves and traitors. Did this include Pomino? Well no, not Pomino, but she had realised this too late. She had observed all the men who had asked for her hand, and had eventually succeeded in discovering some treachery of theirs and had derived fierce enjoyment from it. Only Pomino gave no grounds for suspicion: indeed the poor man had been a martyr to his wife.
So why did she not marry him now herself? The sad reason was because he was a widower!
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