- Padre de José: [Sitting and drinking wine with his friend Diego, looking at the children playing in the street] How your daughter has grown, Diego!
- Padre de Candela: [Turns to ponder the sight of his daughter playing jump-rope in the street, then turns to his friend] My friend, Candela will belong to your José.
- Padre de José: As you wish... Let's seal the pact.
- Padre de Candela: May it be for the best.
- Padre de José: [They shake hands, and one of them pours some wine over their clasped hands] To our children.
- Carmelo: [after four years of confinement for a murder he did not commit, Carmelo has been released from prison, and returns to the gypsy settlement. He comes to greet Aunt Rosario] Aunt Rosario.
- Tía Rosario: You're finally out. I'm so glad.
- Carmelo: [Jokingly] They got tired of me and tossed me out.
- Tía Rosario: I'm so happy... We missed you a lot.
- Carmelo: [after long pause, expressing a certain bitterness] No one really missed me.
- Tía Rosario: We forget about other people. That's how life is.
- Carmelo: I lost four years of my life!
- Tía Rosario: You'll get them back! Start over now, with no grudges.
- Carmelo: [after long, thoughtful pause] Goodbye, aunt.
- Candela: [Under the spell of the ghost of her dead husband José] He's calling me. But I don't want to go! He's chasing me. I'm too weak. What can I do?
- Carmelo: Calm down. Calm down.
- Candela: What can I do, Carmelo?
- Carmelo: Let's leave this place.
- Candela: And go where?
- Carmelo: Anywhere far from here.
- Candela: He'll follow us everywhere, to the ends of the earth... What can I do?
- Tía Rosario: [Carmelo and Candela have come to Aunt Rosario so as to get her advice on how to deal with the ghost of José who keeps tormenting Candela] I was expecting you two. There's only one thing to keep the dead from returning: FIRE!
- [She points her finger forcefully at a blazing bonfire]
- Tía Rosario: Lucía still loves José. She was his lover in life, let her be his lover in death, too.
- Carmelo: What do you mean?
- Tía Rosario: Didn't José die defending her honor? If he died for her, it's fitting that she should offer him her love.
- Carmelo: Her love?... You mean her life.
- Tía Rosario: My son... The happiness of some always comes at the expense of others. That's how life is. You must speak to Lucía. Tell her to go tonight to where José died, where Candela meets the apparition. Talk to Candela. Arrange it with her.
- Carmelo: There's no other way?
- Tía Rosario: [She shakes her head] You love Candela, don't you?... Talk to Lucía. CONVINCE her!