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I think he did. I don't know just how much because, at a later date, we lived off the allowance that he gave her.

He then became a photographer and he was a very good photographer but, again, much later, he destroyed practically all of his photographic collection. He then, I think, during the war, he was in the American aviation--I think he may have been with the Lafayette Escadrille first and then with some American unit.

I was born in 1915 before the U.S. had gone into the war in September of 1915, but, the war of course, was raging all around us in Italy--I mean, around us in all of Europe.

What language were you speaking at home?

Well, according to what I'm told, my first language was Neapolitan, because the servants were Neapolitan. Neapolitan is quite different from Italian. My second language would be Italian, and then, apparently, I was rather stubborn about speaking English, so my mother finally got a British nanny, and British nannies are known for one thing, namely they'll never learn a language other than English. So I succumbed and learned English, and that's why people seventy years later still say to me, “Exactly what is your accent? You must be from the South or from some other place than wherever you are.” I suppose it's the combination of the English nanny plus all the other languages that I learned in succession and forgot in succession.

Which hospital were you born in?