So he said I might have my way, and he told me to come home and tell Tista at once.

Where is Tista ?" "Eh! He is in his room, packing up his things.

I will go and call him.
Oh dear! What a wonderful day this is, my child! To think that it is not yet eleven o'clock, and all that has happened! It is enough to make a woman crazy, fit to send to Santo Spirito.

First you are to be married, and then you are not to be married! Then Gianbattista is sent away--after all these years, and such a good boy! And then he is taken back! And then--but the chickens, Lucia, you forgot to ask about the chickens--" "Not a bit of it," answered the young girl.

"I asked first, before he told me.