Along the route north, on the train the immigrants call “The Beast,” the family saw “many things,” Elvira says.
Elvira has recently been deceived by Giovanni—and decides to seek vengeance by publicly outing him as the trickster whom he is.
"Oh, I don't mean these boys," said Elvira, waving her thin arms scornfully around the roomful.
"I have to tell you something terribly sad about Elvira," Loneli said, quite downcast.
Elvira, with great display of dress and equipage, was not far from her, and waved her hand with patronising encouragement.
"I don't want it," said Elvira, picking at the end of the woollen tippet with her little finger quirked up elegantly.
Pip, who had raised his head at entrance of the visitors, ducked it behind the pile of greens at sight of Elvira.
