Almost forgot... hock to fortune

During the suite...

"Then I thought again and remembering the women and children involved and the necessity for solidarity in this passing world I repeated his gesture. Then, to justify this perhaps excessive preoccupation with our own safety which seemed premature if we were to spend three months, days and nights, on the roads of Spain, and selfish if we were to spend that time with bullfighters, I prayed for all those I had hock to Fortune, for all friends with cancer, for all girls, living and dead, and that Antonio would have good bulls that afternoon...."