What fun! But where has she come from?
When last I heard of her she was in Paris." A month of close companionship with people who spoke Portuguese all day long, and often far into the night, had familiarized Iris with many of the common phrases.

Thus, she gathered one fact as to Carmela, and more than suspected another.

For a reason that every woman will understand, she felt a subtle thrill of fear.

If San Benavides were really Carmela's accepted lover, then, indeed, Iris had good cause for foreboding.

Though the Brazilian had never directly avowed his passion, since he knew quite well that she would refuse to listen, she could not be blind to his infatuation.