Nothing about Loreto is surprising. That is to say, of what she knows about Loreto nothing surprises her, not even the moped. But of course Loreto has a life of her own, invisible to her employers, which may well be full of surprises. It may contain, for instance, Loreto’s equivalent of the Pole: a man who finds her, Loreto, to be full of grace and worth pursuing. It is only a matter of chance that the story being told is not about Loreto and her man but about her, Beatriz, and her Polish admirer. Another fall of the dice and the story would be about Loreto’s submerged life.
