The three sisters were all beyond seventy, and Concetta was not the eldest; but the struggle for power which has been-hinted at at the beginning had ended some time ago with the rout of her adversaries, so no one would now have dared contest her functions as mistress of the house.
Hiru ahizpek hirurogeita hamarna urte zituzten, gutxi gorabehera, eta Concetta ez zen zaharrena, baina hasieran aipatu dugun nagusitasuna lortzeko borroka hura kontrakoen debellatio deitzen denarekin amaitu zenez gero, aspaldi amaitu ere, inori ez zitzaiokeen bururatuko eztabaidan jartzea hari zegokiola etxeko nagusiaren maila.