Before take-off, we heard someone on the plane ask, "Dov'é Giovanna?" ("Where's Giovanna?"). Shortly someone else asked "Dov'é Giovanna?". Before long, there were five or six people enquiring as to Giovanna's whereabouts, recounting where they last saw Giovanna, exclaiming that they hadn't seen Giovanna board the plane, that they couldn't see Giovanna anywhere at all!
At one point Nonna panicked that they must alert the pilot immediately that we were missing a passenger and bustled off to the front of the aircraft to speak to the cabin crew in an urgent voice.
We speculated that Giovanna had set up an elaborate ruse, escorting everyone aboard the flight before absconding to who knows where with who knows who. Perhaps she had eloped with Darren, of whom her family did not approve?
Presently Giovanna arrived aboard (disapproving our fantasy that she was half-way to Gretna Green by now). Apparently she had been told her hand luggage was too big and was charged €57 to check it into the hold. Giovanna's family had much to say about this.
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