“Find that spoon for me,” Donna Cristina told her, “and you shall have a big reward.”
“Very well,” Cinigia replied; “twenty-four hours are all I need.”
And twenty-four hours later she brought back her answer; the spoon was to be found in a hole in the courtyard, near the well.
Donna Cristina and Maria descended to the courtyard, made search, and, to their great amazement, found the spoon.
Swiftly the news spread throughout Pescara.
Then triumphantly Candia Marcanda went the rounds of all the streets. She seemed to have grown taller; she held her head erect; she smiled, looking every one straight in the eye, as if to say, “I told you so! I told you so!”
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The people in the shops, seeing her pass by, would murmur something and then break forth into a significantly sneering laugh. Filippo La Selvi, who sat drinking a glass of liqueur brandy in the Café d’Ange, called Candia in.
“Another glass for Candia, the same as mine!”