Wrapped Up in the Pleasures of the World

"Signora?" he asked.
"Yes?"
"Why are you crying"
Because I'm unlucky in love."
"Ah!"
"You can't understand; you're still a kid."
"You want to try swimming with my mask?"
"Thank you very much. Is it nice?"
"It's the nicest thing in the world."

From "Big Fish, Little Fish" by Italo Calvino