A mother, a son, and a daughter; an old woman said to be halfwitted, a country lout, and a country girl, who stands very high with her confessor, and is, therefore,' chuckled the physician, 'most likely plain; there is not much in that to attract the fancy of a dashing officer.' 'And yet you say they are high-born,' I objected.
'Well, as to that, I should distinguish,' returned the doctor.

'The mother is; not so the children.

The mother was the last representative of a princely stock, degenerate both in parts and fortune.

Her father was not only poor, he was mad: and the girl ran wild about the residencia till his death.

Then, much of the fortune having died with him, and the family being quite extinct, the girl ran wilder than ever, until at last she married, Heaven knows whom, a muleteer some say, others a smuggler; while there are some who uphold there was no marriage at all, and that Felipe and Olalla are bastards.