“I don’t quite understand.”
“It is difficult to understand—difficult to be sure when it is the bad woman. The bad woman is like mosquitoes—not wanted but would not go away.”
“Tell me what happened.”
“When I was in London, I was at this place where is the—please, what is campo? No, not campo, but where is the beast with the horn in the head—the cervo?”
“Ah! yes, the deer. You mean the Zoological Gardens.”
“No, no. This place where is the villa with the red palazzo and the chief labours of painting and beds and chinesy images are over the place where is coming the fire in the winter-time, and on the wall is also the armatura and the deer it is in the trees on the side of the river.”
“I believe you mean Hampton Court.”
“Yes, and was telling to the lady—she was a very kind lady—”
“But please, what lady? Alfio’s widow was not at Hampton Court?”
“She was the wife of the plumber.”