Chapter 27 No.27

Instead of the steps of a church, which form the natural way to their new estate for the great majority of brides, Francesca stepped into hers from the companion ladder of the Cura?ao. But there had been various happenings-the visit of the Do?a Gracio de Gallardo y Garcio to urge, in her own stout black person, Francesca's acceptance of her house a