[...] One day the Fascists went into the forest guard’s house and started shooting at the looking-glass in the way the Germans did, and then they took the forest guard’s boots, the forest guard himself had for some time been in hiding at a farm-house and there was only his wife in the house, and when she wept and screamed a German came to see what was going on. The German stayed all night with the forest guard’s wife, and the Fascists ran off with the boots, and next day the forest guard’s wife ate some rat poison, but the doctor came and made her vomit in time. When she was better, the forest guard’s wife packed a bag and went off to her parents at Teramo, the German gave her a lift in a lorry.