A Escrava Isaura 7.25 · 7.25

The 'hmm' does more work than the words around it — a whole foreboding compressed into a grunt. She will not say outright what Leôncio is; she lets the pause and the wish 'God grant I'm wrong' carry it. The reader, who has seen him in Cap. VI, knows she is not wrong.

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