Out of my path, Satanas!" The last word was not one which Thomas Worth had expected.

He flushed crimson at its application, and with a few muttered sentences, intelligible only to the priest, he took him firmly by the shoulder, led him outside the door, and closed and barred it.
The expulsion was not accomplished without noisy opposition on the part of Fray Ignatius, and it pained Thomas deeply to hear, in the midst of the priest's anathemas, the shrill cries of his mother's distress and disapproval.
The next domestic movement of Thomas Worth was to rid the house of Molly and Manuel, and the inferior servants.

It was not as easy a task as may be supposed.

They had been ordered by Fray Ignatius to remain, and the order had not been countermanded.

Even if the Senora and her daughters were going east, and their services were not needed, they had no objections to remain in the Worth house.