"I know perfectly well who Miss Bedford is." Serina interrupted him, still in Portuguese.
Katherine stared at her, not catching the foreign words. "Is she talking about me?"
"She said her mother was a Yoruba." Winston moved between them. "And she said something about a priest."
"Is she some sort of priest? Is that what she said?"
"No." Serina's English answer was quick and curt, then she said something else to Winston, in Portuguese.
"She said she was not, though the women of her mother's family have practiced divination for many generations."
"Divination?" Katherine studied him, puzzled. Then she turned back to Serina,"What do you mean by that?"
Serina was looking at her now, for the first time. "Divination is the way the Yoruba people ask their gods to tell the future."
"How exactly do they go about doing such a thing?"
"Many ways." She turned back to the cauldron.