The fiesta of San Fermin, which will last for seven days, begins at noon on a Sunday. Musicians and dancers fill the streets—and even some of the shops, like the wine store, where Brett is placed on a cask so the Basque peasants can dance around her as if she is an idol. Locked out of his own room, Jake sleeps on one of the beds in Cohn’s while the rest of the group stays out all night and then attends the running of the bulls from the corrals to the bullring, through the streets of Pamplona. That afternoon, Jake meets the nineteen-year-old matador Pedro Romero, after which Jake, Bill, Cohn, Mike and Brett attend a bullfight. Mike ribs Cohn for being upset by the goring of the horses. (Brett, by contrast, did not flinch.) The next day, Romero performs admirably in the ring, and Brett cannot help talking about her attraction to him.
