After Pisanelli's accident, he had been wary of cars and in the last summer months at the Questura before retirement, he had frequently cycled into work. A friend in Maintenance restored the Ganna that had been gathering dust in the cellar for the last twenty years; Gerolamo had baked a grey coat of enamel onto the old frame and he had replaced the sprung saddle for something rather sporty in leather - a Brooks, Gerolamo said, with pride.
Several months later, when Anna Maria arrived in via Milano, she started complaining about not being able to get out to the new shops. "If you want me to do the cooking, Rino, I've got to have something to cook," she said in a querulous voice that kept the trace of fifty years in Holland, fifty years of bullying her Dutch husband.