Not one invitation went through that door again this year. Twenty years running, the same line in the register, the same blank.

• Maddalena CornerThat house's gate only opens when the water ebbs. The invitations always came with the flood tide.
  Bianca TronThen perhaps this year I'll time it to the tide.
  Maddalena CornerDo not send it, my lady.
• Taddeo BragadinA blank is a record too.