SCENE II.
Has he gone, the good padre?
Yes, dear soul.
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Has he gone, the good padre?
Yes, dear soul.
He was your uncle once.
Once? Yes, and always. How you speak!
He is not gay any more, the good padre. He is getting old... getting old.
To hear her! and she eighty years last San Miguel's day!
What day is it?
Hist! Chiquita is waking.
Hist? Nay, I will say my say in spite of all. Hist? God save us! who taught thee to say hist to thy elders? Ay, ay, who taught thee?... What day is it?
How sharp she is awhiles!
help me beg thy forgiveness.
Sing to her, nieta. What is it you sing that always hushes her? 'T is gone from me.
I know not.
Bethink thee.
I cannot. Ah—the rhyme of The Three Little White Teeth?
Ay, ay, that is it!