Chapter XXI
"Norma Costante? Your mistress is called Norma Costante?! Ah, but you are indeed a murderous traitor!" Vittorio had burst his anger directly at my face, a few centimeters away. Sprays of his bitter saliva had fallen on my chin.
How could I have imagined that the wife who had left him was Norma? Just because Lines had revealed to me that she’d had not two but three husbands? He had not told me that the first was Italian! And if it was true that, as she had told me herself, in New York the people who really matter all know each other and, therefore, that Vittorio's wife too had to be in that environment having married a very rich Newyorker as her second husband and then a famous artist, it was still many hundreds of people if not more; and on the other hand, Vittorio had never
