Kino sighed with satisfaction – and that was conversation.” They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway. “When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.” The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. And yet it was this thing that made him a man, half insane and half god, and Juana had need of a man she could not live without a man.” Juana, in her woman’s soul, knew that the mountain would stand while the man broke himself that the sea would surge while the man drowned in it. It meant that Kino would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea. It meant that he was half insane and half god. “He had said, “I am a man,” and that meant certain things to Juana. “she knew she could help him best by being silent and by being near”
