For I felt that he would certainly come some day and take me away, and all this would be over." "All--what ?" inquired Marcos, the matter-of-fact, at the other side of the wall.
"Oh, I don't know.

There is a sort of strain and mystery which I cannot define.

I am not a coward, you know, but sometimes I am afraid and feel alone in the world.

There is Leon, of course; but Leon is no good, is he ?" "No, he is no good," replied Marcos.
"And, Marcos, do you think it is possible to be in the world and yet be saved; to be quite safe, I mean, for the next world, like Sor Teresa ?" "Yes, I do." "Does Uncle Ramon think so ?" "Yes," replied Marcos.
"What a bother one's soul is," she said, with a sigh.

"I'm sure mine is.
I am never allowed to think of anything else." "Why ?" asked Marcos, who was a patient searcher after remedies, and never discussed matters which could not be ameliorated by immediate action.
"Oh! because it seems that I am more than usually wicked.