A Escrava Isaura 7.191 · 7.191

Her whole reply is one word, and the adverb tells the rest: 'secamente,' dryly, curtly. She gives André no purchase — no warmth to build on, no offence to seize. It is the same technique she used on Rosa: minimal, composed, unprovokable.

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