"All the better. If you are satisfied, I am so too."
"Ah, ah!"
"Yes, all is ready for departure."
"Let us be off—tomorrow if you like."
"On this very night."
"Very good. You are like me, and don't care to travel by day on account of the heat of the sun."
The two accomplices smiled at this delicate jest.
"But before starting," the squatter continued, becoming serious again, "we have something left to do here."
"What is it?" Fray Ambrosio asked with candor.
"It is wonderful what a short memory you have. Take care: that failing may play an awkward trick some day."