Carmella Commands
Carmella rushed for the door, but turned as Maria came after her, calling an awed “good-bye!”
Carmella threw her arms around her mother’s neck, and said in Neapolitan:
“Good-bye, mother of mine! You are good. You are kind. Thank you for letting me wear this dress. You are, oh, so good!”
So quickly had Carmella sensed the responsibilities of dominance.
Maria wiped her eyes and went back to her kitchen, praising God for such a daughter as Carmella who, although American, was so kind to her old Italian mother.
Maria was thirty-four years of age.
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