A gypsy girl approached Don Zana and Alfanhui and held out her tambourine. Don Zana said to her, ‘You don’t pay for art, kid.

But Alfanhui didn’t want to abuse the rosemary, because one shouldn’t tell a lot in one day, since the stories lose their strength.

They had painted a lady leaning her arms on the sill of the window. This lady was waiting for a husband. Her flesh was slack and she was some forty-five years old. Perhaps she had...