"Some who were not."
"How many?"
"Several."
"And did you sleep with them?"
"No."
"You see?"
"Yes."
"What I mean is that this Maria does not do this lightly."
"Nor I."
"If I thought you did I would have shot you last night as you lay with her.
For this we kill much here."
"Listen, old one," Robert Jordan said.
"It is because of the lack of time that there has been informality.
What we do not have is time.
Tomorrow we must fight.
To me that is nothing.
But for the Maria and me it means that we must live all of our life in this time."
"And a day and a night is little time," Agustin said.
"Yes.
But there has been yesterday and the night before and last night."
"Look," Agustin said.
"If I can aid thee."
"No.
We are all right."
"If I could do anything for thee or for the cropped head--"
"No."
"Truly, there is little one man can do for another."
"No.
There is much."
"What?"
"No matter what passes today and tomorrow in respect to combat, give me thy confidence and obey even though the orders may appear wrong."
"You have my confidence.
Since this of the cavalry and the sending away of the horse."
"That was nothing.
You see that we are working for one thing.
To win the war.
Unless we win, all other things are futile.
Tomorrow we have a thing of great importance.
Of true importance.
Also we will have combat.
In combat there must be discipline.
For many things are not as they appear.
Discipline must come from trust and confidence."
Agustin spat on the ground.
"The Maria and all such things are apart," he said.
"That you and the Maria should make use of what time there is as two human beings.
If I can aid thee I am at thy orders.
But for the thing of tomorrow I will obey thee blindly.
If it is necessary that one should die for the thing of tomorrow one goes gladly and with the heart light."
"Thus do I feel," Robert Jordan said.