K.Esquivel-LWFC

That's easy, why not go to the dark room?
There we can do it without
anyone bothering us. I've been waiting for
you to come there for
several days."
`Those visits to the dark room are just what I
have to talk to you
about."
Chencha interrupted their conversation to
inform them that the Loboses
had just arrived at the party, and everyone
was waiting for them to cut
the bread. So Tita and Pedro had no choice
but to postpone their
conversation and carry the bread to the
dining room, where it was
anxiously awaited. As they crossed the
hallway, Tita saw her mother,
motionless beside the door to the dining
room, throwing her a furious
look. She was petrified.
Pulque began to bark at Mama Elena, who
was walking toward Tita
threateningly. The fur on the dog's back was
sticking straight up from
fear and he was backing away, on the
defensive. In his excitement, he
put his back leg into the brass spittoon that
stood at the end of the
hall, next to the fern, and when he tried to
run away, he knocked it
over, spraying its contents in every direction.
The uproar he created drew the attention of
the twelve guests, who were
all sitting together in the living room.
Alarmed, they looked out into
the hall, and Pedro was forced to explain that
Pulque did this type of
inexplicable thing lately, perhaps because he
was getting old, but that
everything was under control. Nevertheless
Paquita Lobo could see that
Tita was on the verge of fainting. She asked
someone else to help
Pedro carry the bread to the dining room
since she saw that Tita was
not feeling well. She took her arm and led
her to the living room.
She made Tita sniff some smelling salts, and
soon she had recovered
completely. They then decided to go to the
dining room.
Before leaving, Paquita detained Tita briefly
and asked: `Are you
feeling all right? I notice you still seem a little
dizzy, and the
look on your face! If I didn't know - I 1/
perfectly well that you are
a decent girl, I would swear that you are
pregnant."
Tita, laughing and trying to appear casual,
replied to her.
`Pregnant? Only you would think of
something like that! And what does
the look on my face have to do with it?"
"I can tell from a woman's eyes the minute
she becomes pregnant."
Tita was grateful to Pulque who again
rescued her from an awkward
situation, since the incredible commotion that
broke out on the patio
kept her from having to continue this
conversation with Paquita.
Besides Pulque's barking she could hear the
sound of several horses
galloping. All the guests were already in the
house. Who could it be
at this hour? Tita hurried to the door, opened
it, and saw what Pulque
was making such a fuss over, a person riding
at the head of a hand of