Angela woke up and looked around her with quiet satisfaction. Everything was ready. A month ago they had borrowed Salva's cart and gone to Benalvista and Angela had spent a blissful day buying things for the baby and a few presents for other people.
For Pepa she had bought a dozen proper terry nappies so she wouldn't have to use rags any more. For Old Salva the baker she had bought a pair of beautiful soft suede shoes. He was so pleased with them, he never took them off his feet and would stop people in the street and invite them to admire them. Indeed, Marcia swore he even wore them in bed.
And for Rosalba she had bought two presents, one practical a rubber sheet for the bed in her back kitchen, which was regularly used for medical procedures, and one personal a lovely little carved box in which to keep her precious letter.