Carmella Commands
course. But enough to permit thinking of the two men in the same thought.
She was glad that she had talked straight truths to Mrs. Barrington, as to an equal.
She had, moreover, scored strategically at her father’s home-coming. Enough, at least, to avoid that heavy-handed punishment which both Tommaso and Maria had been brought up to believe was a growing family’s salvation.
Although she would have liked it better to be called on to accompany her father on a day when it would have kept her out of school, she felt that the evening had been altogether successful.
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