“And then?”
“And then, amigo, we must hope that he will do it in fact next Sunday. If he does, the bravery will come and the grace will return and we will be members of a prosperous cuadrilla.”
“If he doesn’t?”
“Then, Luis, we will wait for the inevitable horn wound which will mean the end of him and we either attach ourselves to another young man of promise, or we go to work.”
“Are there any more young men of promise?”
“Ai, that is the beauty of it, Luis,” said Pablo. “There are always the young men.”