She longed no more to be part of the group about the water tank in the bathhouse. Pinay sex Rosa laughed breathlessly and denied it. They called to her and she smiled at them. She swung up the bottle of wine she had held tightly in one hand, and ran after the man to strike him with it. She told herself she would kill Sancho if she ever saw him again. Rosa looked down at her right foot which twinged with pain. She was sweating at the defective town pump when strong hands closed over hers and started to help her. “With the grace of God, all right, thank you.” Once he made her a sly joke about his knowing there were simply lots of men courting her. She thought of their laughter and Sancho following her with his coaxing tones, and she smiled slowly. Aruy!, until the woman, exhausted by her own anger left off striking the girl to sit down in a chair, curse loudly about the loss of such good wine, and ask where she was going to get the money to buy another bottle.
