"THE IRON PREFECT" "Come in!" " Excellency, just a few minutes left." " Thank you." "I wasn't sleeping, you know?" "Are we there?" "Not yet." "I have to leave you alone for a while." "Don't ask me anything." "I'll get on the train again, at the next station." "Honored to have you here." "Uncle Carmelo!" "I thought you were a good Christian, respectful as we all are." "Instead, I heard that you and the others... refuse to cultivate the earth that belongs to the Church." " This is a sacrilege!" " Who sent you?" "The Bishop?" "The Bishop?" "The Holy father himself sent me..." "You understand?" "What should I report?" "That tomorrow he'll find the wheat cropped and the sheaves raised?" "I can't do that alone!" "And the others won't work if they aren't paid." "What they get is a misery, but Don Niccolò won't even pay that." "He talks about San Giuseppe, Sant'Antonio and the Madonna, but he never pays." "If the Holy father called you to Heaven, I bet that you'd ask him to pay for the trip!" "Don't tell me all this stuff - you just have to answer: yes or no!" "That's what I have to report." "No!" "I can't!" " You've pissed me off!" " Carmelo!" " Traitor!" "You should be careful; you'll end up burning in hell if you carry on behaving this way." "Carmelo!"