If they were separated, what was to become of her?
She could not go to the mother who had sold her as a slave.

No; certainly, he decided, he must go without her.
"Malinche," he said, after a long silence, "it cannot be.

There is no saying what my fate may be, among your people.

I may be offered up to those terrible gods you told me of.

I may be treated as a slave.