"At the airport. I can meet your plane."
"Won't you be followed?"
"Of course. By three or four of my picked men. Don't worry about that."
Gonzales interrupted to say that there would be time for them to have dinner at the house before starting on the drive north.
"Oh, while we're at it," Hall said, "I am going to ask you to be good enough to keep my novia here until I return. That is, if Segador thinks it is safe."
"It is safe," the Major grunted. "We will make it safe."
"Then it is the privilege of my daughter and myself to make this house the señorita's for a century." Gonzales called his daughter in from the kitchen. "It will be very good for her, amigos. Maria Luisa is studying English in high school. It will help her greatly."
"Let her teach Jerry Spanish in a week," Hall said.
The girl seemed pleased when her father told her about Jerry. "Oh, nice," she said, trying out her English immediately. "You are very welcome, Aunt. The pleasure it is all of mine."
"You are very kind," Jerry said.