Carnival is half over and my face is still here. Twenty days held together for the price of one jar of lacquer. I have made the cheapest bargain in this whole city.

• Gia VendraminTwenty days for one jar of lacquer. Come to my side of the canal and I'd have given you ten more days for half the price.
  Niccolò LoredanHalf price for ten days means my neck is worth exactly ten days to you. I thank you for the honest math.
• Tadeo BragadinOne column in the ledger has sat empty for twenty days now. A single line of a name would end it, so why has the sun set on it twice over.
  Niccolò LoredanCounting an empty column for twenty days straight. Even the Inspector has nothing to do at night.