"I wish I could."
"I've had a quarrel with Estelle."
"You shouldn't have brought her here."
"I didn't bring her."
"Women without men are no good," he said.
Back in bed, she fell into a troubled sleep until peacocks and roosters woke her. She dressed and the shrill pot-rack, pot-rack of the guinea hen annoyed her; it seemed to her the most hideous of hacienda noises. Raul got up and dressed rapidly and as he dressed he told her that he and his men must drive three hundred head of cattle to Colima. At breakfast, he still could not tell her about Refugio.
She toyed with her dish of fruit, thinking of Estelle, remembering Guadalajara people.
Such a sad face, he thought.
"Couldn't you and Gabriel do something with some of the children?" he suggested.
"Perhaps we could. I ... I'll talk to Gabriel."