"I pay her for this!" Then she remembered, "Fazei bem aos que vos tem odio." (Do good to them that hate you.) To Sara's amazement, Delpha did not retaliate.
Sara could not understand why.
Toward the end of the olive season, the American went away for a day.

During the noon rest, Delpha, sitting in a side door, thought she caught the odor of smoke.

No wood fire was allowed around the oil-mill! Delpha went out to investigate.
She saw a film of smoke rising from a gulch.

Delpha discovered that some of the young mill-workers' friends had caught some fish in the bay sparkling in the distance, and had brought them this way going home.

The American being absent, the young mill-workers and their friends had made a fire in the gulch, and were merrily broiling fish.