"You say that your life or welfare hung on this shameful business.

Then why do you reveal it to me now ?" "To save you from yourself, Senora, to save my friend the Senor Brome, and to pay back Morella in his own coin." "How will you do these things ?" "The first two are done, I think, but the third is difficult.

It is of that I come to speak with you, at great risk.

Indeed, had not my master been summoned to the court of the Moorish king I could not have come, and he may return at any time." "Have you some plan ?" asked Margaret, leaning towards her eagerly.
"No plan as yet, only an idea." She turned and looked at Betty, adding, "This lady is your cousin, is she not, though of a different station, and somewhat far away ?" Margaret nodded.
"You are not unlike," went on Inez, "of much the same height and shape, although the Senora Betty is stronger built, and her eyes are blue and her hair golden, whereas your eyes are black and your hair chestnut.
Beneath a veil, or at night, it would not be easy to tell you apart if your hands were gloved and neither of you spoke above a whisper." "Yes," said Margaret, "what then ?" "Now the Senora Betty comes into the play," replied Inez.

"Senora Betty, have you understood our talk ?" "Something, not quite all," answered Betty.
"Then what you do not understand your lady must interpret, and be not angry with me, I pray you, if I seem to know more of you and your affairs than you have ever told me.