"What do you recommend today?"
"What do you mean 'recommend.' Cheese! Same as always. The best. Who's your girlfriend`"
"This is Madeleine."
"You like cheese, young lady? Here, taste. Take some home with you. And get rid of this guy. He's no good."
Yet another revelation about Leonard: he was friends with the old italian cheese maker on Federal Hill. Maybe that was where he'd been going when Madeleine used to see him waiting for the bus in the rain. To visit his friend Vittorio.