The Italian Girls by Debbie Rix

Author:Debbie Rix [Rix, Debbie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781838882037
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2020-09-27T16:00:00+00:00

Isabella spent the next couple of days in a turmoil of indecision. She reproached herself for the arrest of Vicenzo’s friend – an innocent girl, as it turned out. That she had also inadvertently brought him into danger made it worse still. She walked past Vicenzo’s house several times, intending to go in, to confess her sin, to beg his forgiveness. But her nerve failed her on each occasion, and she returned home and shut herself away in her bedroom, refusing even to come out for meals.

On the third day, Giovanna grew impatient with her daughter. Instead of leaving her food on a tray outside the door as she had been doing, she barged in and found Isabella lying on her bed in the half-light, her face streaked with tears.

‘What is the matter with you?’ she demanded, putting a cup of coffee on her bedside table. ‘You go out, you come back, you don’t speak, you hardly eat – I’m worried about you.’

‘You shouldn’t be,’ said Isabella self-pityingly. ‘I don’t deserve your sympathy.’

‘Don’t be ridiculous!’ Her mother opened the curtains. ‘It’s a beautiful autumn day out there. Get up, get dressed. Go to the club,’ she urged. ‘See your friends.’

‘No,’ Isabella said gloomily, rolling over away from the bright light. ‘I only get into trouble when I go there.’

‘I don’t know what you’re talking about,’ said her mother briskly. ‘Put on a dress and some lipstick and go!’

The following afternoon, Isabella finally relented and drove to the Acquasanta.

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