Giuliano Debernardi, a young man of intelligence and promise, met an old priest in a train heading for German. One glance was enough for Giuliano to tell that the priest was so-called a dismal failure in life. Therefore he ignored the priest when he came into the compartment.

However The priest, with a bottle of wine, somehow seemed very aggressive and full of confidence. Why ?
He sarcastically remarked that Giuliano was tied to trifle worries. It was sharpshooting. As a matter of fact, Giuliano was afraid that he told a lie to his new employer in German that he could handle the language fluently.　The train was going through mountainous area and the priest was looking out from the train window. All of sudden he asked Giuliano if he saw Emiglia who was just walking by the gorge. "No," he replied.

Then the priest began to talk about her. Emiglia was a widow whose husband was a miner. With the earthquake years ago, he was trapped in a tunnel and died with other miners. It is beyond imagination how hard and hopeless they were when they gave a death cry !

The train was just getting into a tunnel. The priest told the story so well that in the darkness, Giuliano felt choked and had to loosen his tie to get air.

The priest was just laughing as Emiglia was a women he simply made up in his imagination.

Wits and wisdoms may be acquired through age !