Claro de Luna #142

When the Italian sailors take their first leave in Barcelona, Marco is haunted at the dock by the eyes of a girl looking out to sea. Later he discovers Marisol is mute, but she wants to be friends. When Marisol's mother gets to be alone with Marco for a moment, she begs him to leave her before he causes her more pain. She tells him how she had fallen in love with an American sailor who had seduced her, then got tired of her. When Marisol was later hit by a car, she wasn't seriously injured but she could not longer speak.