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It actually looked like a house haunted by ghosts. The light that was beaming through the slits of the shutters showed the dark shapes of the furniture that was there in that strange place: armchairs, lamps, tables; everything was covered up with some bed sheets and there was dust everywhere, which would give the place an air of mystery.
Greta hesitated for a few minutes then she went in the room that used to be the sitting room. She walked towards the window and she opened it wide. It overlooked the internal courtyard and from there you could see the lemon grove, the view was just magnificent.
The natural light of the day filled every corner of that room after such a long time. Greta remembered what Donna Grazia had said and she looked up at the ceiling: the wooden beams that sup
