Apparently Mariapia had not told her brother, and in fact, when she sat down again at his side, she had squeezed his face in her hands and, looking compassionately into his eyes as if he himself were the one offended, had said to him in a hoarse voice: "Yes, as soon as those two left, Peppino closed the front door with the inside hook and threw himself on me, still on the ground half-stunned, and he raped me too."
Giuseppe was deathly pale and had not made a sound nor had he pulled his face from his sister's hands.
Vittorio sat there silent, very attentive.
With the two men in silence, the poor young woman had continued, looking alternately at the Deputy Commissioner and her brother: "In the end he pulled me up onto my feet by force and ordered me to wash and get dressed. While I was do
