premise: The other set being in the pocket of Giovanna's overall from which she now drew them and held them up making it clear that they would be relinquished only upon her death and then only into the hands of Signor Kettering. What had occurred was quite contrary to the wishes of the padrone who would be outraged if he ever got to hear of it. Despite this disastrous beginning however Giovanna would be there in the morning her own family circumstances permitting and she would be much obliged if the Signora would make sure that her children were up and dressed and the breakfast eaten so that she could see that the house was returned to something like the order which Signor Kettering expected of it.