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the coming-home
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image commanded you to do," says Donna Micaela
to Donna Elisa.
Outside the shop they embrace and each one goes
her way.
After a little while Gaetano comes out on the
doorstep. He stands still a moment and inhales the
fresh night air. Then he sees how lights are lit in
the dark palace across the street.
Gaetano breathes hard and laboriously. He appears
almost to be afraid to go farther. Suddenly he
dashes off, as one who goes to meet an inevitable
disaster. He finds the portal to the summer-palace
unlocked, takes the stairs in two bounds and pulls
open the door of the music-room without knocking.
Donna Micaela sits wondering whether he will
come to-night or not until the morning. She hears
his steps out in the gallery. Terror takes possession
of her. What will he now be like ? She has longed
so incredibly for him. Will he really be such that
all this longing will be assuaged ?
And will no more walls rise between them ? Will
they now be able to tell each other everything ?
Will they speak of love and not socialism ?
When he opens the door she tries to go towards
him, but she cannot. Her whole body shakes. She
sits down and hides her eyes with her hand.
She expects that he will throw his arms around
her and kiss her, but he is not very likely to do that.
Gaetano is not in the habit of doing what you
expect he will do.
As soon as he was able to hold himself upright,
he hurried on his clothes in order to come and see
her. He is really in brilliant humor. He wquM
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