When the zambo comes in, I shall seize him by the throat and threaten him with my dagger.

While I hold him you must stuff this cloth into his mouth, take off his shirt and trousers--he has no other garments--and put them on over your own.

That done, we will bind him with this cord, and lock him in with his own key.

Are you ready ?" "I am ready." Carmen knocked loudly at the door.
Two minutes later the door opens, and as the zambo closes it behind him, Carmen seizes him by the throat and pushes him against the wall.
"A word, a whisper, and you are a dead man!" he hisses, sternly, at the same time drawing his dagger.

"Open your mouth, or, _per Dios_--The cloth, senor.