Chapter SevenThe tension amongst the people was intense and every minute the atmosphere grew more and charged with expectation.
Orina could feel it even though she stayed in the cave.
Juarez had told her last night before they went to bed that he was going to open the dam for the first time at about four o’clock in the afternoon when it would be cooler.
She had heard him going off to work as soon as it was dawn.
The men who were singing as they went with him had a distinctly new lilt in their voices and she knew that this was due to the excitement they were all feeling.
Zeeti had a great deal to say when she came in to draw the curtain in Orina’s room.
“A great day! Only Como Dios could bring us water – and life!”
Orina realised that she was quoting the words of the prayers to the G
