She had those four smiling with her in sheer sympathy before she had spoken three sentences; and the two who did not understand her words smiled just as sympathetically as the two who knew what she was talking about.
"Tell the senora I am sorry, and she shall stay; and my mother will give her hens and a bottle of her very good medicine, which Manuel drinks so greedily," Teresita cried, when Dade told her what the woman said, and leaned impulsively and held out her hand.

"I would do as the Americanos do, and shake the hands for a new friendship," she explained, blushing a little.

"We shall be friends.

Senor Hunter, tell the pretty senora that I say we shall be friends.

Amiga mia, I shall call her, and I shall learn the Americano language, that we may talk together." She meant every word of it, Dade knew; and with a troublesome, squeezed feeling in his throat he interpreted her speech with painstaking exactness.
Mrs.Jerry took the senorita's hand and smiled up at her with the brightness of tears in her eyes.