For better and for worse.
In sickness and in death.
No that wasn't it.
In sickness and in health.
Till death do us part.
In two nights.
Much more than likely.
Much more than likely and now lay off that sort of thinking.
You can stop that now.
That's not good for you.
Do nothing that is not good for you.
Sure that's it.
This was what Golz had talked about.
The longer he was around, the smarter Golz seemed.
So this was what he was asking about; the compensation of irregular service.
Had Golz had this and was it the urgency and the lack of time and the circumstances that made it?
Was this something that happened to every one given comparable circumstances? And did he only think it was something special because it was happening to him?
Had Golz slept around in a hurry when he was commanding irregular cavalry in the Red Army and had the combination of the circumstances and the rest of it made the girls seem the way Maria was?
Probably Golz knew all about this too and wanted to make the point that you must make your whole life in the two nights that are given to you; that living as we do now you must concentrate all of that which you should always have into the short time that you can have it.
It was a good system of belief.
But he did not believe that Maria had only been made by the circumstances.
Unless, of course, she is a reaction from her own circumstance as well as his.
Her one circumstance is not so good, he thought.
No, not so good.
If this was how it was then this was how it was.
But there was no law that made him say he liked it.
I did not know that I could ever feel what I have felt, he thought.
Nor that this could happen to me.
I would like to have it for my whole life.
You will, the other part of him said.
You will.
You have it _now_ and that is all your whole life is; now.
There is nothing else than now.
There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.
How old must you be before you know that?
There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion.
This is how you live a life in two days.
And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life.
A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
So now do not worry, take what you have, and do your work and you will have a long life and a very merry one.
Hasn't it been merry lately?
What are you complaining about?
That's the thing about this sort of work, he told himself, and was very pleased with the thought, it isn't so much what you learn as it is the people you meet.
He was pleased then because he was joking and he came back to the girl.
"I love you, rabbit," he said to the girl.
"What was it you were saying?"
"I was saying," she told him, "that you must not worry about your work because I will not bother you nor interfere. If there is anything I can do you will tell me."
"There's nothing," he said.
"It is really very simple."
"I will learn from Pilar what I should do to take care of a man well and those things I will do," Maria said.