"Perhaps it is; you shall judge for yourself."
"I listen, but time presses, and I—"
"Oh, I will be brief," she interrupted.
"I am at your service," and he reseated himself, smiling, exactly like a friend on a visit. The Linda followed his motions with her eye, without appearing to attach any importance to them.
"Don Tadeo," she said, "during the many years we have been separated a great number of events has taken place."
"Quite correct," said he, with a gesture of polite assent.
"I will say nothing to you of myself—my life is known to you."
"Very little of it, madam."
She cast a savage look at him.
"Let that pass," she said, "it is of you I would speak."