Baglioni chronicles

Milano
‘I can never see all that there is when I’m out window shopping,’ she comments. She means, perhaps, that she wants to stop in front of every display, and walk into half the stores where she pauses. She’s sitting in the bar at the Carlton, sipping her Spritz Aperol. She looks fantastic in her winter wool, in her chic sunglasses.

‘Did you know,’ I say, ‘that there’s a private doorway here that leads to the Via della Spiga? You can walk out whenever you like. You can come back whenever you like.’

‘It is true they change the windows frequently,’ she says. ‘ I can go out tomorrow and there will be new things to happen upon.’

‘Undoubtedly,’ I answer.

‘I don’t need to get in a taxi.’

‘You can reach most of the places you like on foot,’ I say. ‘The Duomo’s less than ten minutes away. And that restaurant you liked, the one that published poetry books.’

‘Then what are we waiting for?’ she asks, taking a last sip, placing her glass decisively on the table next to a half-full dish of cerignola olives.

‘I am waiting for you,’ I say. ‘And I have all day. I shall follow you everywhere.’

‘You are a magnificent man,’ she tells me. ‘To give so generously of your time.’

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