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THE BELLS OF SAN PASQUALE ’ 91
word. She hurried up the spiral street, came to
the Cathedral, and threw herself down in terror
before the altar of the black Madonna.
That happened one Saturday morning, and on
Sunday evening Donna Micaela saw Gaetano again.
For it was beautiful moonlight, and in Diamante it
is the custom on moonlight nights for all to leave
their homes and go out into the streets. As soon
as the inhabitants of the summer palace had come
outside their door they had met acquaintances.
Donna Elisa had taken Cavaliere Palmeri’s arm,
and the syndic Voltaro had joined Don Ferrante to
discuss the elections; but Gaetano came up to
Donna Micaela because he wished to hear if she had
followed his advice.
“Have you stopped sewing on that altar-cloth?”
he said.
But Donna Micaela answered that all day
yesterday she had sewn on it.
“Then it is you who understand what you are
doing, Donna Micaela.”
“Yes, now there is no help for it, Don Gaetano.”
She managed to keep them away from the others,
for there was something she wished to speak to him
about. And when they came to Porta Etnea, she
turned out through the gate, and they went along
the paths that wind under Monte Chiaro’s palm
groves.
They could not have walked on the streets filled
with people. Donna Micaela spoke so the people
in Diamante would have stoned her if they had
heard her.
She asked Gaetano if he had ever seen the black
Madonna in the Cathedral. She had not seen her
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