'Gone to dinner'
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— Forão jantar, senhor; mas não tardarão a voltar.
— They've gone to dinner, sir; but they won't be long in coming back.
The overseer answers with a servant's deference — 'senhor,' sir — and a practical reassurance. The exchange is mundane, the running of an estate, and its very ordinariness is chilling: the machinery of the plantation clicks along, meals and work and returns, while its master's eye is about to fall on the one woman alone in the room.
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