Then she started to cry.
"No, _guapa_, don't," he said.
"Listen.
We will not go to Madrid now but I go always with thee wherever thou goest.
Understand?"
She said nothing and pushed her head against his cheek with her arms around him.
"Listen to this well, rabbit," he said.
He knew there was a great hurry and he was sweating very much, but this had to be said and understood.
"Thou wilt go now, rabbit.
But I go with thee.
As long as there is one of us there is both of us.
Do you understand?"
"Nay, I stay with thee."
"Nay, rabbit.
What I do now I do alone.
I could not do it well with thee.
If thou goest then I go, too.
Do you not see how it is?
Whichever one there is, is both."
"I will stay with thee."
"Nay, rabbit.
Listen.
That people cannot do together.
Each one must do it alone.
But if thou goest then I go with thee.
It is in that way that I go too.
Thou wilt go now, I know.
For thou art good and kind.
Thou wilt go now for us both."
"But it is easier if I stay with thee," she said.
"It is better for me."
"Yes.
Therefore go for a favor.
Do it for me since it is what thou canst do."
"But you don't understand, Roberto.
What about me?
It is worse for me to go."
"Surely," he said.
"It is harder for thee.
But I am thee also now."
She said nothing.
He looked at her and he was sweating heavily and he spoke now, trying harder to do something than he had ever tried in all his life.
"Now you will go for us both," he said.
"You must not be selfish, rabbit.
You must do your duty now."
She shook her head.
"You are me now," he said.
"Surely thou must feel it, rabbit.
"Rabbit, listen," he said.
"Truly thus I go too.