“If you care to listen, I’ll tell you whom I was with.”
“I’m listening.”
“Well, I was with the Countess.”
“Then you haven’t the least bit of shame,” said María furiously.
“The Countess,” Quentin continued, “was upset by the verses in La Víbora, and wished to avenge herself, and had asked the Governor to have me thrown into prison.”
“Then what?”
“Well, Pacheco and I joined forces, and instead of her arresting us, we arrested her, and carried her off in her carriage to a farm.”
“What happened there?” asked the actress.
“Nothing; we became good friends.”
“Bah!”