rew near the corpse, to say farewell with one last look.
At the door, Candelas summoned her:

"Let's be going! Come!"

Alicia Pardo turned. There was really nothing more for her to do there.
The thick air of that room, the tiled floor all covered with crimson
blotches, stifled her. Out in the street she would breathe deeply again.
And she reflected that her necklace of black pearls would attract
attention, that night, at the Teatro Real. She felt no sadness. As she
passed in front of the mirror, she cast a sidelong glance at herself.

"It's a pretty necklace, all right," thought she.

Then she added, with a vague regret:

"Still, I'd have liked the emeralds better----"

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