Despite their skinny frame, brown skin and tangled hair, the boys had earnest eyes which strangely attracted the narrator and his companion. The narrator and his companion stayed in Verona for a week. During this period, the boys took them to all the places of visit in Verona, and also ran errands for them. They got them American cigarettes; seats for them for the opera and a good restaurant that could provide good ravioli, whenever they wanted. Thus, they proved themselves to be extremely useful to the narrator.
