In face he was not unlike Juanna herself, and as time went on the resemblance seemed to grow.

Had he been arrayed in a woman's loose attire, it would have been easy to mistake one for the other in the dusk, although she was the taller of the two.
The accident of his profession caused Juanna to admit Francisco to an intimacy which she would have withheld from any other man.

She forgot, or did not understand, that she was playing a dangerous game--that after all he was a man, and that the heart of a man beat beneath his cassock.
Nobody could be more charming in her manner or more subtle in her mind than Juanna, yet day by day she did not hesitate to display all her strength before the unfortunate young priest, which, in addition to her beauty, made her somewhat irresistible, at any rate on the Zambesi.
Friendship and ignorance of the world were doubtless at the bottom of this reprehensible conduct, but it is also possible that unconscious pique had something to do with it.

She was determined to show Leonard that she was not always a disagreeable person whom it was well to avoid, or at least that others did not think so.

That all these airs and graces might have a tragic effect upon Francisco never occurred to her till too late.
Well, for once the order of things was changed; Leonard and Juanna sat side by side in the first boat.