He shrugged his shoulders. "Eet ees just a trick... jus' nothing. But, you see, mine ees not a very dignified or happy profession." He said these words with an air of the utmost sincerity. No one would have thought that they were an opening gambit he had been using for years.
She said: "I don't understand that. You're a great artist. You're very popular. You ought to be happy. Why should you be unhappy?"
Callao shrugged his shoulders again. His voice was very low. "The only reason I can think ees the song I was jus' singing."
Aurora got it. She didn't see why she should waste a lot of time.
She said: "You mean that I might be the person that made all the other women seem different?"
"Not different, Señorita," said Callao. "Jus' indifferent!" He went on: "Singing like this ees no good.
