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Updated: May 21, 2025
The washer-girls were dressed in the gayest of peasant clothes green and scarlet petticoats, flowered kerchiefs, coral beads and flashing earrings; you would have to go far into the hills in these degenerate days before meeting their match on an Italian highway.
His thoughts were interrupted by a fresh giggle from behind, and he found that the three washer-girls were laughing at him. 'Your mistress's manners are not the best in the world, said he severely, 'and I am obliged to add that yours are no better.
A momentary silence followed; then the washer-girls, making sure that he was not injured, broke into a shrill chorus of laughter, while the Farfalla rocked under impact of Giuseppe's mirth. The girl on the wall alone remained grave. The young man picked himself up, restored his guide-book to his pocket, and blushingly stepped forward, hat in hand, to make an apology.
She continued to shake her head and her eyes wandered suggestively to the hydrangeas, but Giuseppe still made a feint of preoccupation. Not being a cruel mistress, she dropped the subject, and turned back to her conversation with the washer-girls. They were discussing a pleasant topic for a sultry summer afternoon the probable content of Paradise.
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