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"It is strange," Vere continued, in a quieter tone; "but sometimes I
feel as if on the night of the storm I had had a sort of consciousness
of her coming--as if, when I saw the Saint's light shining, and bent
down to the water and made the sign of the Cross, I already knew
something of Peppina's wound, as if I made the sign to protect our
Casa del Mare, to ward off something evil."
"That was coming to us with Peppina, do you mean?"
"I don't know, Madre."
"Are you thinking of Giulia's foolish words about the evil eye?"
"No. It's all vague, Madre. But Peppina's cross sometimes seems to me
to be a sign, a warning come into the house. When I see it it seems to
say there is a cross to be borne by some one here, by one of us."
"How imaginative you are, Vere!"
"So are you, Madre! But you try to hide it from me."
Hermione was startled. She took Vere's hand, and held it for a moment
in silence, pressing it with a force that was nervous. And her
luminous, expressive eyes, immensely sensitive, beautiful in their
sensitiveness, showed that she was moved.


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