He laughed outright. “A spy! What an extraordinary idea!”
She glanced at him coldly. “And why is it extraordinary?”
“If you had talked to him you would know quite well that he couldn’t possibly be anything of the sort.”
“Perhaps not. José is always very suspicious of people. He always believes that they are lying about themselves.”
“Frankly, I should be inclined to accept José’s disapproval of a person as a recommendation.”
“Oh, he does not disapprove. He is just interested. He likes to find things out about people. He thinks that we are all animals. He is never shocked by anything people do.”
“He sounds very stupid.”
“You do not understand José. He does not think of good things and evil things as they do in the convent, but only of things. He says that a thing that is good for one person may be evil for another, so that it is stupid to talk of good and evil.”
“But people sometimes do good things simply because those things are good.”
“Only because they feel nice when they do them-that is what José says.”