This time her pace was different, she was in a hurried stride. Before I could asked her what happened, she quickly volunteered that she had had to pause under a shaded front of a building on the corner street to avoid getting wet further. I never said a word and just kept it to myself whatever was going inside my head.
“Shall we go in now?” she said.
“As you’d said before, let’s do it quick,” I said.
She smiled. That was the first and only time I saw her smiled at me. The considerable change of her demeanor never surprised me though. She had communicated with her man when she entered the rear street dissecting the block. I could not, even in a remote possibility, catch a glimpse on them when they took their chance to communicate. The view was blocked by the high walls of the corner buil
