best let him go,” said Ramón to Kate. “You do not mind going home in the boat?”
“I don’t want to give you trouble.”
“It is least trouble to let this fellow go, and you can leave by boat just whenever you wish to. So we shall all be more free.”
Kate paid the chauffeur, and the Ford started rattling. After rattling a while, it moved in a curve round the courtyard, and lurched through the zaguan, disappearing as fast as possible.
Ramón spoke to his two mozos with the guns. They went to the outer doorway, obediently.
“Why do you have to have armed men?” she said.
“Oh, they’re afraid of bandits,” he said. “Whenever there’s a rebellion anywhere, everybody is afraid of bandits. So of course that calls bandits into life.”
“But where do they come