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Two days later the Padrona said to Gian-Luca: "Would you like to come upstairs and have tea with me? It is terribly hot down here."
She was neither so sly, nor so stupid, nor so wanton as Teresa had proclaimed her to be; indeed at that moment she felt purely maternal -- she was sorry for the pale-faced boy.