"Pilar, listen to me. And thou, Maria. Forgive me if I have molested you speaking of things of the family. I know that all have the same troubles and it is more valuable not to speak of them."

"That you shoud speak," Pilar said. "For what are we born if not to aid one another? And to listen and say nothing is a cold enough aid."

Ernest Hemingway. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York. Scribner. 1940.