"I was walking and sitting and doing nothing at all but looking at the trees and the birds and feeling happy, and Don Luis came to me.

He might have come down from the skies, I was so astonished.

And he looked so handsome, and he said such words! Oh, Antonia! they went straight to my heart." "When was this, dear ?" "It was in the morning.

I had been to mass with Rachela.

I had said every prayer with my whole heart, and Rachela told me I might stay in the garden until the sun grew hot.