They were from her husband and Jack.

Her hands trembled; she kissed them fervently; and as she placed them in her breast her tears dropped down upon them.
Antonia opened the real conversation with that never-failing wedge, the weather.

"You came through the storm, Luis?
Yet you are not wet, scarcely?
Now then, explain this miracle." "I went first to Lopez Navarro's.

Do you not know this festa dress?
It is the one Lopez bought for the feast of St.James.He lent it to me, for I assure you that my own clothing was like that of a beggar man.

It was impossible that I could see my angel on earth in it." "But in such weather?
You can not have come far to-day ?" "Senorita, there are things which are impossible, quite impossible! That is one of them.