So vanished the squash of the Esvidos from their eyes.
Meantime the Portuguese mother read aloud from the Bible.

The daughter, Delpha, listened, while gently rubbing the black olives in the water-trough.

She knew of Christ, yet the words of the Biblia Sagrada were unknown.
After this, Mrs.Esvido read the book much in the evenings.

Delpha and Mr.Esvido listened, the father listening more because just now he had not his pipe for company.

The American who bought the olives declared that no one who picked olives for him must smoke during olive harvest! All his workmen, even when off duty, must refrain from smoking, for the tobacco odor clung to clothing.