The two priests differ in their approach to Dona Isabella. Vaillant is vehement; Latour is gently persuasive. Isabella's reluctance to divulge her age can be seen as the reluctant passing of one generation@ — the generation of the elder Olivares, the Carsons, Don Chavez@ — to the next generation, in which every New Mexican will be considered an American.
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