[260] contra él, i.e., Alberto.
[261] a lo alto de la sala, i.e., the speaker’s platform.
[262] desolados, panic-stricken.
[263] Palermo, a suburb of Buenos Aires.
[264] como Isaac. Reference to the sacrifice of Isaac. Cf. Genesis 22:9.
[265] desolada, grief-stricken.
[266] la mostró. The commoner usage (so also 100, 28, rasgóla) is le.
[267] Luján. V. map.
[268] pudiendo... momento, since he might be recognized and denounced at any moment.
[269] Amigo también, Being also a friend.