But one thing is sure: as shopkeepers in January converted to the euro at, in theory, 1, 936 lire to euro1 prices in the new currency were not just quietly rounded up (that was illegal) but leapt.
He becomes ever harder to believe in, however fervent he is meant to be in defending the helpless Irene, and the suspicion arises that he might be not so much a rounded character as a card in a game of style.