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the bells of san pasquale. 95
it beamed with tenderness. And her heart was filled
with hope. Here was heaven’s mighty queen, here
was the good Mother Mary, here was the afflicted
one, who understood all distress, and she would not
suffer her father to be taken away from her.
Here she would immediately find succor. She
need only fall on her knees and tell her sorrows and
the black Madonna would help her.
While she prayed, she felt certain that Don
Ferrante already at this very moment changed his
opinion. When she came home, he would come to meet
her and tell her that she could keep her father.
• • • • • • •
It was a morning three weeks later.
Donna Micaela came out of the summer palace to
go to morning mass, but before going to the church
she went into Donna Elisa’s shop to buy a wax
candle. It was still so early that she feared the
shop would not be open, but it was, and she felt
glad to be able to bring with her a gift to the black
Madonna.
The shop was vacant when Donna Micaela
entered, and she pushed the door back and forth that
the bell might jingle and summon Donna Elisa.
At last some one came, it was not Donna Elisa,
however, but a young man.
The young man was Gaetano, whom Donna Micaela
knew but slightly. For Gaetano had heard so much
about her, that he was afraid of meeting her, and
every time she had come over to Donna Elisa, he
had locked himself in his workshop. Donna Micaela
knew nothing more about him than that he intended
to leave Diamante, and that he was constantly carv-
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