And now they both stood in the entrance, because a moment ago Senora Ines, smiling, had said,
"Please wait here a second."
Her mother suddenly seemed worried.
"What is it?" she asked Rosaura.
"What is what?" said Rosaura. "It's nothing; she just wants to get the presents for those who are
leaving, see?"
She pointed at the fat boy and at a girl with pigtails who were also waiting there, next to their mothers. And she explained about the presents. She knew, because she had been watching those who left before her. When one of the girls was about to leave, Senora Ines would give her a bracelet. When a boy left, Senora Ines gave him a yo-yo. Rosaura preferred the yo-yo because it sparkled, but she didn't mention that to her mother. Her mother might have said: "So why don't you ask for one, you blockhead?" That's what her mother was like. Rosaura didn't feel like explaining that she'd be horribly ashamed to be the odd one out.