32/35 Depart." "The Senorita Isabel ?" "Is in my care. Her mother's care! do you understand ?" "My Senora, Fray Ignatius--" "Saints in heaven! But this is intolerable! Go." Then Rachela closed the door with a clang which echoed through the house. And say as we will, the malice of the wicked is never quite futile. It was impossible after this interruption to recall the happy spirit dismissed by it; and Rachela had the consolation, as she muttered beside the fire in the Senora's room, this conviction. So that when she heard the party breaking up half an hour afterwards, she complimented herself upon her influence. |