For a moment he hesitated, then, muttering some Spanish oath between his teeth, followed her.
"Well, most fair Betty," he said, "what word have you for me now ?" "The question is, Senor Carlos," answered Betty with scarcely suppressed indignation, "what word you have for me, who dared so much for you to-night?
That you have plenty for my cousin, I know, since standing in the cold garden I could hear you talk, talk, talk, through the shutters, as though for your very life." "I pray that those shutters had no hole in them," reflected d'Aguilar to himself.

"No, there was a curtain also; she can have seen nothing." But aloud he answered: "Mistress Betty, you should not stand about in this bitter wind; you might fall ill, and then what should I suffer ?" "I don't know, nothing perhaps; that would be left to me.

What I want to understand is, why you plan to come to see me, and then spend an hour with Margaret ?" "To avert suspicion, most dear Betty.

Also I had to talk to her of this Peter, in whom she seems so greatly interested.

You are very shrewd, Betty--tell me, is that to be a match ?" "I think so; I have been told nothing, but I have noticed many things, and almost every day she is writing to him, though why she should care for that owl of a man I cannot guess." "Doubtless because she appreciates solid worth, Betty, as I do in you.
Who can account for the impulses of the heart, which come, say some of the learned, from heaven, and others, from hell?
At least it is no affair of ours, so let us wish them happiness, and, after they are married, a large and healthy family.