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"And to Gaspare?"
"Si, Signora. And this afternoon, too. Gaspare was at Mergellina this
afternoon."
"And you met there, did you?"
"Si, Signora. I had been with my mamma, and when I left my mamma--
poveretta--I met Gaspare."
"I hope your mother is well."
"Signora, she is not very well just now. She is a little sad just
now."
Hermione felt that the boy had some trouble which, perhaps, he would
like to tell her. Perhaps some instinct made him know that she felt
tender towards him, very tender that night.
"I am sorry for that," she said--"very sorry."
"Si, Signora. There is trouble in our house."
"What is it, Ruffo?"
The boy hesitated to answer. He moved his bare feet on the bridge and
looked down towards the boat. Hermione did not press him, said
nothing.
"Signora," Ruffo said, at last, coming to a decision, "my Patrigno is
not a good man. He makes my mamma jealous. He goes after others."
It was the old story of the South, then! Hermione knew something of
the persistent infidelities of Neapolitan men.


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