I supposed long-engaged people are like that; warm now, cool tomorrow.
She does not seem to be in much of a hurry either.
Why do Alfredo and Esperanza are not married yet? Alfredo is over thirty and still a bachelor! Esperanza must be tired of waiting.
How can a woman be in a hurry when the man does not hurry her? What do you think happened?
Greetings beautiful lady, I'm Alfredo Salazar, son of Don Julian.
Hello, a pleasure to meet both of you. I'm Julia Salas, Judge Del Valle's sister-in-law.
She had not changed much a little less slender, not so eagerly alive, yet something had gone.
What had Calixta done? You are very positive about her badness.
No. All I say is that it is not necessarily wicked.
The trouble with you, Esperanza, is that you are.
My ideas? The only test I wish to apply is the test of fairness . Am I hurting anybody? No? Then I'm justified in my conscience.
But do you approve of what she did?
She is not married to him. Besides, she should have thought of us. We never thought she would turn out bad.
Why shouldn't it be? You talked like an immoral man. I did not know that your ideas were like that.
She has injured us. She was ungrateful.
Yes, one has to be fair according to his lights but it is hard. One would like to be fair to one's self first. But that is too easy, one does not dare.
Esperanza. If you suppose I...
Why do you get angry? I do not understand you at all I think I know why you have been indifirent to me lately. I'm not blind, or deaf; i see and hear what perhaps some are trying to keep me.
What do you mean? Whatever my shortcomings, and no doubt they are many in your eyes, I have never gone out of my way, of my place, to find a man.
Why don't you speak out frankly before it is too late? You did not think of me and of what people will say.
If you mean you want to take back your word, if you are tired why don't you tell me you are tired of me?