“Because I told your friend Alzugaray....”
“All right, but I don’t ask my friend what you have told him.”
“It doesn’t interest you? Very good. You are very polite. But your politics do interest me. Come on, tell me. What reforms do you intend to make in the town? What improvements are you going to give the inhabitants? For I warn you, Señor Moncada, that they are all going to vote against you otherwise, I will tell my father.”
“I don’t believe his political interest is so keen.”
“It is keen enough, and my father will do what I tell him. My father says that you are ambitious.”
“If I were, I should make love to you, because you are rich.”
“And do you suppose I would respond?”
“I don’t know, but I should try it, as others do; and you can see that I don’t try.”
Amparito bit her lips and said ironically:
“Are you reserving yourself for my cousin Adelaida?”