Crossword-Solution: PADRONA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Jerrold has a maid to wait on the table and care for our rooms--well, the padrona is my first friend.

She tells me lovely stories about her home and the peasants and their life, while I sit on the floor with Giovanni,--friend number three and eldest son of the padrona,--and even Roberto, my enemy, the crying baby of three years, hushes his naughty mouth to listen to Lisetta, for that is the cousin’s name.

Play I am as good an Italian as my heart could wish I were.” This speech was received with new applause, and the padrona handed around the glasses saying: “We must drink first to the health of our new Italian.

She was from a distance, was handsome and clever, and the padrona gave glowing accounts of her full purse, and two pretty donkeys, and house by the sea.

Then, after she had disrobed her of her borrowed plumes, all the others kissed her hand and bowed themselves out, and Roberto and Giovanni awaked, and got up from the corner, and stood on their heads and hallooed as loud as ever they pleased, and the evening was over, and Lisetta and the padrona and the boys and Mae were alone.