may i talk to you?
i don't have to sleep first?
did you give this money to my daughter?
please.  flor advances on him past her daughter so cristina now translates from the background.
you don't tell or ask the mother when you give a child a fortune for looking on the beach for stones. what is the word for this.
no. not a name for the stones. a name for the act. what you did.
smug. john gets up and takes a conciliatory step toward flor so that now cristina is in the middle looking up at them as she translates for john
fifty dollars is a lot of money.
to what. sleep? if this was small enough to be helped by some little apology, i would be a fool to bring it up. i need to say more no matter what the result. i need to be impolite. you leave someone else's child alone. it's simple, no? it is too easy for children to feel contradictions. it encourages questioning their parents. and that makes them less safe. your wife takes her for rides and changes her hair. you give her money. here.  take back the money???????????? flor hands john the envelope under her daughter's wrenching gaze. they begin to exit. but flor turns inadvertently bumping into her daughter. her voice softens.
i did not mean to be angry to you - only emotional.  they turn to leave. john speaks with sudden volume and muscle.
no difference. i interfered.
i am very embarrassed. you are very right. hypocrisy. yes.
i will leave whenever it is good for you and.
but how can i work for you after we talk like this?
i can't have you doing this for me. i must learn english now.