The Boss’s Daughters

by Douglass, Carl;

  Two months later:

  Mrs. Delilah Vecchione watches her two daughters—Chiarina, age nine, and Cipriana, age eleven—play with all the free delight that young girls can muster on Marina Grande beach, Isle of Capri. The exclusive resort boasts the biggest beach on the island, adjacent to the harbor hydrofoil dock. The water is always refreshingly clean; it is late morning; and the sun will not leave the beach until mid-afternoon.

  It is June 13, and the new little family plans to go into town to join the fun of the Festival of Sant’Antonio, the Anacapri patron saint. They became Delilah—Mrs. Vecchione—Chiarina, Cipriana, and Donatello Vecchione a month ago when they arrived on the exquisite island located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrentine Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples. The couple’s papers are in order; they are obviously affluent. The marriage took place the day after they arrived. It was celebrated in the Cattedrale di San Gennaro in Naples. The girls were ecstatic about the grandeur of the cathedral, the ceremony, their beautiful white lace dresses, and all the happy people. They had no difficulty adopting new names; they were used to that.

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