Act 3, Scene 3 Summary

Three hours later, the light is still dusky and Rosa is asleep on the couch. From the back of the cottage, a man coughs and bedsprings groan as someone moves to get up. Alvaro staggers out into the front room with a bottle of Asti in one arm. He wears only his pants and thinks that he is still dreaming as he sees the girl lying on the couch. He drops to his knees and crawls over to her in the fear that she might disappear if he were to become too obvious.

She wakes, sees him crouching over her and screams. Immediately Serafina is in the room screaming too. She screams at Alvaro to get out, treating him like a stranger who has broken into their home. He tries to reason with the two, saying that he was sorry, he...