Even physically, especially her blue eyes, those of a one-time blonde, reminded him of signora Anna, Filippo Turati's companion, whom he'd known very well as a boy in Milan, in about 1922. His father, a lawyer, had spent nearly a year in prison with the Turatis, in '98. He was an intimate friend of them both, and was one of the few people who dared visit them in their modest flat in the Galleria on Sunday afternoons.
Gogora ekarri zion, baita fisikoari zegokionez ere, ilehori izandako baten begi urdinengatik batik bat, Anna andrea, Filippo Turatiren bizilaguna, berak umetan ezagutu zuena, Milanen, 22an edo. Bere aitak, abokatua bera, ia urtebete pasatu zuen kartzelan Turati bikotearekin 1898an. Bien lagun mina zelarik, igande arratsaldeetan Galleriako haien apartamentu apalean bisitatzen jarraitzera ausartu ziren bakarretakoa izan zen.