Chapter 12 Summary

Although the four friends ask around Aghia Anna about Vonni, the locals will reveal nothing to them. Thomas admires Vonni's blouse, and Vonni comments that a woman named Magda made it for her. Thus, Vonni invites us into another slice of her past: she befriended Magda when the woman's marriage was shaky, and in the process, she stole Vonni's husband. She then continues to shed the layers of her past with the story of her romance with her husband. They met in Ireland when she was just a girl, and she fell in love, embezzled two and a half thousand dollars, and ran away to Greece with him, telling Stavros that the money came from her savings. Around the time they arrived in Greece, Christina, who was pregnant with Stavros's child, tried to kill herself, but only succeeded in killing her unborn child...