If you have arrangements to make or commands to send, the woman Inez yonder will serve as messenger, for of her I know the worst." "I will obey you in all things, Dona Margaret," he answered humbly.

"Do you desire to see your father or--" and he paused.
"Neither of them," she answered.

"I will write to them and send my letters by this Inez.

Why should I see them," she added passionately, "who have done with the old days when I was free and happy, and am about to become the wife of the most noble Marquis of Morella, that honourable grandee of Spain, who tricked a poor girl by a false promise of marriage, and used her blind and loving folly to trap and steal me from my home?
My lord, till this day week I bid you farewell," and, walking from the arcade to the fountain, she called aloud to Betty to accompany her to their rooms.
The week for which Margaret had bargained had gone by.

All was prepared.
Inez had shown to Morella the letters that his bride to be wrote to her father and to Peter Brome; also the answers, imploring and passionate, to the same.