SCENE 2: Carmen & Don JulianNarration: Carmen sees Alfredo through the window pane thinking inside their house while talking to Don Julian (Their Father) about Alfredo and Esperanza’s
papa, and when the long-table be set?
I don't know yet, Alfredo is not very specific, but I understand Esperanza wants it to be next month.
WHY IS HE NOT A BIT MORE UNDECIDED, I WONDER. HE IS OVER THIRTY IS HE NOT? AND STILL A BACHELOR!ESPERANZA MUST BE TIRED OF WAITING . FOUR YEARS OF BEING A PRETTY FIANCEE.
SHE DOES NOT SEEM TO BE IN MUCH HURRY EITHER.
HOW CAN A WOMAN BE IN A HURRY WHEN THE MAN DOES NOT HURRY HER? PAPA, DO YOU REMEMBER HOW MUCH INLOVE HE WAS?
IN LOVE, WITH WHOM?
WITH ESPERANZA, OF COURSE. HE HAS NOT HAD ANOTHER LOVE AFFAIR THAT I KNOWOF... WHAT I MEAN IS THAT AT THE BEGINNING HE WAS VERY ETHUASISTIC - FLOWERS, SERENADES, NOTES, AND THINGS LIKE THAT-WHAT DO YOU THINK HAPPEN?
That phase you were speaking of is natural enough for a beginning. Besides, that, as I see it, was Alfredo’s last race with escaping youth –