Bithynios’s already brief population has actually dwindled nowadays. Desdemona and you may Lefty is the reason cousin Sourmelina recently gone to live in “a location called Detroit” in america. Of hundred or so some one still-living in Bithynios, there are only a couple unmarried young women except that Desdemona by herself: Lucille Kafkalis and you can Victoria Pappas . not, when Desdemona provides all of them up, Lefty claims one to Lucille smells when you’re Victoria was ugly. Just after Lefty will leave when you look at the a beneficial huff, Desdemona becomes out of the proper care beans that have been in her family to have years and you can counts all of them up to she seems ideal.