A Escrava Isaura 8.39 · 8.39

His whole strategy is in three words and a manner. 'Temos tempo,' we have time — the delayer's first move — spoken 'com toda a calma,' with perfect composure. The calm is itself an insult: a man untroubled by the thing that torments his wife. Where she is urgent, he is serene, and the serenity is a wall.

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