By the second carafe of house wine Giusy revealed that sometimes she steals little things from guest rooms, never anything valuable, just items that would be annoying for their owner when they went missing: earring backs, a tube of concealer, once a diaphragm. She sort of blushed when she said it but she also looked proud of herself. “Why are you telling me this? I’m a guest, aren’t I? Now I know what happened if my birth control goes missing.”

