If Hernando arrived, Lito suspects he would drop everything and everyone in order to be with him, but given his arrangement with Demelza, it might be hard to cut away because there is nothing that he is leading her towards. "Daniela is very open-minded," Lito promises, hand reaching out before he can stop himself, bad habits coming back to him.

"Perhaps we would be three," he says, given that it is what it is at home.

What it had been.