Then turning to Linares, "Do you hear, cousin?
His Excellency was here! Don't you see now that De Espadana was right when he told you that you weren't going to the house of a miserable Indian?
Because, you know, Don Santiago, in Madrid our cousin was the friend of ministers and dukes and dined in the house of Count El Campanario." "The Duke of La Torte, Victorina," corrected her husband.

[121] "It's the same thing.

If you will tell me--" "Shall I find Padre Damaso in his town ?" interrupted Linares, addressing Padre Salvi.

"I've been told that it's near here." "He's right here and will be over in a little while," replied the curate.
"How glad I am of that! I have a letter to him," exclaimed the youth, "and if it were not for the happy chance that brings me here, I would have come expressly to visit him." In the meantime the _happy_ chance had awakened.
"De Espadana," said Dona Victorina, when the meal was over, "shall we go in to see Clarita ?" Then to Capitan Tiago, "Only for you, Don Santiago, only for you! My husband only attends persons of quality, and yet, and yet--! He's not like those here.

In Madrid he only visited persons of quality." They adjourned to the sick girl's chamber.