"You and the Anselmo can take her when this terminates."
Robert Jordan felt the ache in his throat and his voice thickening.
"That might be done," he said.
The _mujer_ of Pablo looked at him and shook her head.
"Ayee.
Ayee," she said.
"Are all men like that?"
"I said nothing.
She is beautiful, you know that."
"No she is not beautiful.
But she begins to be beautiful, you mean," the woman of Pablo said.
"Men.
It is a shame to us women that we make them.
No.
In seriousness.
Are there not homes to care for such as her under the Republic?"
"Yes," said Robert Jordan.
"Good places.
On the coast near Valencia.
In other places too.
There they will treat her well and she can work with children.
There are the children from evacuated villages.
They will teach her the work."
"That is what I want," the _mujer_ of Pablo said.
"Pablo has a sickness for her already.
It is another thing which destroys him.
It lies on him like a sickness when he sees her.
It is best that she goes now."
"We can take her after this is over."
"And you will be careful of her now if I trust you?
I speak to you as though I knew you for a long time."
"It is like that," Robert Jordan said, "when people understand one another."
"Sit down," the woman of Pablo said.
"I do not ask any promise because what will happen, will happen.
Only if you will not take her out, then I ask a promise."
"Why if I would not take her?"
"Because I do not want her crazy here after you will go.
I have had her crazy before and I have enough without that."
"We will take her after the bridge," Robert Jordan said.
"If we are alive after the bridge, we will take her."
"I do not like to hear you speak in that manner.
That manner of speaking never brings luck."
"I spoke in that manner only to make a promise," Robert Jordan said.
"I am not of those who speak gloomily."
"Let me see thy hand," the woman said.
Robert Jordan put his hand out and the woman opened it, held it in her own big hand, rubbed her thumb over it and looked at it, carefully, then dropped it. She stood up.
He got up too and she looked at him without smiling.
"What did you see in it?" Robert Jordan asked her.
"I don't believe in it.
You won't scare me."