The next morning, the woman told her doctor about her husband: “When he is drunk,” she said, “he sings Ombra mai fu and Canto...
The next morning, the woman told her doctor about her husband:
“When he is drunk,” she said, “he sings Ombra mai fu and Canto delle rocce” —the first, “O Shadow of Death,” and the second, “Canto degli infelici.” But when he is sober, he recites Ombra mai fu…"
In a tone of great calm, the German doctor said:
“You must learn to understand him then, since he is no other than you, yourself. Do not speak to him with the sharp tongue of a child.”
what happened next?
The woman’s life became a very monotonous one. She worked, then lay in her room, where she read books and talked with her husband. One evening, the poor woman found herself so sad and broken that she threw herself on her husband’s breast, and he wept like a child at her tears. She kissed him on the eyes and forehead, and lay beside him, as though she were embracing him.
“Now I know,” she murmured, “that you are not so bad as I thought you were, and that I loved you indeed.”
do they get a happy ending?
According to the story itself – the last chapter does not begin with the woman singing the title of the story, but instead with her husband telling her that her singing is so beautiful that he longs to hear it again – she and her husband are reunited, and they remain on good terms.