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He repulses her roughly, and in despair she tells Alfio the story of his wife's inconstancy. Alfio challenges Turiddu to mortal combat, and kills him as the curtain falls. Squalid as the story is, it is full of life and movement, and has that simple directness which is essential to success. The music is melodious, if not very original, and vigorous even to brutality.
Statistics may or may not support the view, but I am inclined to attribute the general impression that Sicily is more dangerous than other countries, less to the frequency of crime there than to the operatic manner in which it is committed. So that I no longer wanted Turiddu to protect me.
I regret that the French gentleman left Calatafimi so early next morning that I had no opportunity of ascertaining whether he slept well after determining that processions do not proceed. The next time I was in Palermo, Turiddu, the conduttore, who used to take me about the town, had returned after being for a year in Naples.
There was a dispute and it was to be submitted to the king, whom they addressed as Pharaoh. I said to Turiddu "But Pharaoh was king of Egypt and all this happened in Palestine if, indeed, it happened anywhere." "Pharaoh also governed Palestine," replied Turiddu.
Santuzza or Lola? Susan debated. Santuzza was the big and easy part; Lola, the smaller part, was of the kind that is usually neglected. But Susan saw possibilities in the character of the woman who won Turiddu away the triumphant woman. The two women represented the two kinds of love the love that is serious, the love that is light.
Turiddu said that Samson was being arrested and presently some more soldiers entered with a prisoner, but it was the wrong man; it was, in fact, Samson's father. He was led away in chains. Then they brought on Samson with several yards of iron chain coiled round and hanging down from his joined hands.
He was actually, as I afterwards discovered, about thirty inches high and his roses were as large as real roses, so that his wreath was enormous and looked very well. Turiddu whispered to me that he was Samson, which made me inquire whether they were going through the whole Bible this winter, but he said this was an exceptional evening, after which they would return to the usual story.
The men wore modern shirts and trousers and long-tailed coats, or rather dressing-gowns, that had once been as good as those worn by Pharaoh and his prime minister. Turiddu told me they were Pasquino and Onofrio, and the woman, who seemed to be just an ordinary woman out of the market with an apron, was Colombina. But the people give Pasquino the pet name of Peppinino and call the woman Rosina.
"Oh, I thought of a lot of things to do to show that she, too, loved Turiddu and that she had as much right to love and to be loved as Santuzza had. Santuzza had had her chance, and had failed." Brent was highly amused. "You seem to forget that Lola was a married woman and that if Santuzza didn't get a husband she'd be the mother of a fatherless child."
Then Samson came on in his fury, armed with the jawbone of an ass; Turiddu said it was of a horse, but I knew better, at least, I knew what it ought to have been. The soldiers did their best, but he knocked them all down again as before amid immense cheering. The next scene was outside a castle in the country.
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