"But is it possible ?" he exclaimed finally.

"Are we still in the Dark Ages?
So--" He approached the young women and said with a change of tone, "Excuse me, I've forgotten an engagement.

I'll be back to see you home." "Stay!" Sinang said to him.

"Yeyeng is going to dance _La Calandria_.

She dances divinely." "I can't, little friend, but I'll be back." The uproar increased.
Yeyeng appeared fancifully dressed, with the "_Da uste su permiso_ ?" and Carvajal was answering her, "_Pase uste adelante_," when two soldiers of the Civil Guard went up to Don Filipo and ordered him to stop the performance.
"Why ?" asked the teniente-mayor in surprise.
"Because the alferez and his wife have been fighting and can't sleep." "Tell the alferez that we have permission from the alcalde and that against such permission _no one_ in the town has any authority, not even the gobernadorcillo himself, and _he_ is my _only superior_." "Well, the show must stop!" repeated the soldiers.