Render my words now, Dona Margaret." Then, after this was done, and she had thought awhile, Inez continued slowly, Margaret translating from Spanish into English whenever Betty could not understand: "Morella made love to you in England, Senora Betty--did he not ?--and won your heart as he has won that of many another woman, so that you came to believe that he was carrying you off to marry you, and not your cousin ?" "What affair is that of yours, woman ?" asked Betty, flushing angrily.
"None at all, save that I could tell much such another story, if you cared to listen.

But hear me out, and then answer me a question, or rather, answer the question first.

Would you like to be avenged upon this high-born knave ?" "Avenged ?" answered Betty, clenching her hands and hissing the words through her firm, white teeth.

"I would risk my life for it." "As I do.

It seems that we are of one mind there.