Dona Consolacion also heard them in her tedium, and on learning who it was that sang, after a few moments of meditation, ordered that Sisa be brought to her instantly.

Something like a smile wandered over her dry lips.
When Sisa was brought in she came calmly, showing neither wonder nor fear.

She seemed to see no lady or mistress, and this wounded the vanity of the Muse, who endeavored to inspire respect and fear.

She coughed, made a sign to the soldiers to leave her, and taking down her husband's whip, said to the crazy woman in a sinister tone, "Come on, _magcantar icau!_" [108] Naturally, Sisa did not understand such Tagalog, and this ignorance calmed the Medusa's wrath, for one of the beautiful qualities of this lady was to try not to know Tagalog, or at least to appear not to know it.

Speaking it the worst possible, she would thus give herself the air of a genuine _orofea_, [109] as she was accustomed to say.