Why could she not keep her appointment?
He rode to the main gate and asked if he could see Sor Teresa--known in the world as Dolores Sarrion--for the monastic life was forbidden by law at this time in Spain, and this was no nunnery; though, as in all such places, certain mediaeval follies were carefully fostered.
"Sor Teresa is not here," was the reply through the grating.
"Then where is she ?" But there was no reply to this plain question.
"Has she gone to Pampeluna ?" The little shutter behind the grating was softly closed.

And Marcos turned his horse's head with a quiet smile.

His face, beneath the shadow of his wide hat, was still and hard.

He had ridden sixty miles since morning, but he sat upright in his saddle.

This was a man, as Juanita had observed, not to say things, but to do them.
It was not difficult for him to find out during the next few weeks that Juanita had been sent to Pampeluna, whither also Sor Teresa had been commanded to go.