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. It wasn't a sermon, it was a sensible discourse. How did you like it, Josefina?

. Splendidly! I agreed with it in everything.

. I am so glad to hear you say so. Now it will be your duty to help us persuade your husband to stand with us and the decent people in the community upon the side of order and right.

. Yes, that is true. But men do have their ideas—at least they have what they call their ideas. They have obligations. Santiago is not able to do whatever he pleases.

. With us upon his side he will be able to do whatever he pleases. He can afford to snap his fingers at the government. The respectable element of Moraleda is solidly with us.

. [Aside] I had better change the subject. [Aloud] Josefina almost fainted in the cathedral.

. Oh, I had a dreadful quarter of an hour! Every eye was fixed upon me.

. You must have had a dreadful quarter of an hour.

. What do you say to a stroll?

. No, indeed; I am too tired. Let us sit down here for a moment—that is, if you don't mind? [To.

. Certainly not.

. We shall rejoin you presently. My dear Marquis, what do you say to a stroll? After mass, the promenade is superb.

. [To ] I have picked the little mottled one for you; I felt certain that you would be pleased. Have you had time to look them over?

. He'll try to make the best of it.

. Leave it to me. You