“It is nice of you to say that, Hi,” she said.
“Did he see the proclamation, or hear of the murder, before he started?” Hi asked.
“No. Rosa tells me that his captive, the Hinestrosa, has been rescued.”
“Yes.”
“What do you think of my country?”
“It’s produced you and Don Manuel and Donna Emilia,” he said. “I think it’s a marvellous country.”
“It may be marvellous, if it turn now.”
“It will turn,” he said. “No nation will stand that proclamation.”
“If a nation be only mad enough, it will stand anything,” she said.
“I hope,” Hi said, “that Don Manuel will find his mother better, when he gets there.”