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She had gone on inviting people, then brought hampers and hampers of good things with which to feed them. There were the Fosses, Charlie with all the Hunt girls, Landini, Lavin, the American doctor, the American dentist, and Gerald. Also Manlio. The Fosses had brought him. He had returned from furlough some time before. It was known now to everybody that he was the fidanzato of Brenda Foss.
It held the broken promise of power, she thought sorrowfully, and she stroked the outstretched palm gently as though it were a half-frozen bird that she would bring to life again. He closed his eyes, smiling. "Ah, your little fingers are soft and warm." "You were at the theatre last night," he said presently. "Fausto saw you. How do you like your cousin's fidanzato?" "Not at all."
"Come!" he said imperatively, but she shook her head. "Ah, Filippo, I love you, but you must listen. Did you see my fidanzato in our box at the theatre last night?" "Yes, and I am glad he is so ugly. I shall not be jealous. You must give me your address in Lucca," he said coolly. Her face fell. "You will let me marry him? You you do not mind?" He made a grimace.
Vere, too, noticed the variations of his demeanor. "Gaspare was very 'jumpy' to-day in the boat," she said, one evening, after returning from a sail; "I wonder what's the matter with him. Do you think he can be in love, Madre?" "I don't know. But he is fidanzato, Vere, with a girl in Marechiaro, you remember?" "Yes, but that lasts forever.
"They were talking about you in the town, though I think they did not know who you were at least I never heard your name and that night Gemma's fidanzato told her he would not marry her. You know best what that meant to her. She rushed into her own room and threw herself out of the window. Ah, you should have seen the dark blood oozing through the fine soft curls!
Thank Heaven for that!" she said, and she sat down on the brick floor to take off her stockings. Gemma's fidanzato, her lawyer from Lucca, was coming to Siena for a week.
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