more free, don’t you think? Like the flowers that send out their scent at night, but in the daytime they look at the sun and don’t have any smell.”
“Perhaps the night here scares me,” she laughed.
“Yes. But why not? The smell of the flowers at night may make one feel afraid, but it is a good fear. One likes it, don’t you think?”
“I am afraid of fear,” she said.
He laughed shortly.
“You speak such English English,” she said. “Nearly all the Mexicans who speak English speak American English. Even Don Ramón does, rather.”
“Yes. Don Ramón graduated in Columbia University. But I was sent to England, to school in London, and then to Oxford.”
“Who sent you?”
“My god-father. He was an Englishman: Bishop Severn, Bishop of Oaxaca. You have heard of him?”
“No,” said Kate.
“He was a very well-known man. He died only about ten years ago.