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. Happy to have met you, I am sure. [To and ] Pass into the restaurant.

. They are waiting for us at our boarding-house.

. Oh, let them wait! What difference does it make? They will get used to it. Don Paco, I am hungry.

. Not on top of what you have just had?

. What?

. And the sherry.?

. Yes, but after the bicarbonate…

. We might sit by the window and enjoy the paseo. In this town it begins after high mass.

. [To ] Do you think we fooled him with those sandwiches?

. What sandwiches?

. Go on and eat! Adios, Don Teodoro.

. Adios, Luisa—I mean Adela.

. That was a discovery. We are in luck.

. Nothing was wanting except the family portrait. The Governor's secretary, brother of a theatrical manager of a travelling troupe! What a scandal!

. If the play is not performed, all the proprietors of the gambling-houses which have been closed by the Governor's order, will set up a howl in the name of liberty. If what they say about favoritism is true

. Of course it is. There is no playing anywhere except at Pedrosa's. And do you know why? Because Don Baldomero makes a fortune out of the rent, and he uses his influence with the Governor to prevent them from playing anywhere else. Haven't you seen the Abejorro? Here is the last number. It's tremendous!