At some other time I'll be able to make explanations to you about my conduct.

We'll still see one another surely." These last words were accompanied by a look at Linares.

The girl raised toward him her lovely eyes, full of purity and sadness.

They were so beseeching and eloquent that Ibarra stopped in confusion.
"May I come tomorrow ?" "You know that for my part you are always welcome," she answered faintly.
Ibarra withdrew in apparent calm, but with a tempest in his head and ice in his heart.

What he had just seen and felt was incomprehensible to him: was it doubt, dislike, or faithlessness?
"Oh, only a woman after all!" he murmured.
Taking no note of where he was going, he reached the spot where the schoolhouse was under construction.