Gradually their conversation became more low and confidential.

They talked of their sons, and their probable whereabouts; of all that the Senora and her daughters had suffered from the disaffection of the servants; and the attitude taken by Fray Ignatius.

And the doctor noticed, without much surprise, that his wife's political sympathies were still in a state of transition and uncertainty.

She could not avoid prophesying the speedy and frightful vengeance of Mexico.

She treated the success at San Antonio as one of the accidents of war.