I didn39;t want to show either of them that I hadn’t disliked Vittoria. So I forced myself to hide the fact that although I continued to believe in their version of things, I also believed a little in my aunt39;s. I carefully avoided saying that Vittoria39;s face, to my great surprise, had seemed so vividly insolent that it was very ugly and very beautiful at the same time, and so now I was hovering between the two superlatives, puzzled.