There was nothing to do but go, so, seeing that her grandfather was not stirring, she thought him asleep and began to prepare breakfast.

Strange, she was calm, she even had a desire to laugh! What had she had last night to afflict her so?
She was not going very far, she could come every second day to visit the house, her grandfather could see her, and as for Basilio, he had known for some time the bad turn her father's affairs had taken, since he had often said to her, "When I'm a physician and we are married, your father won't need his fields." "What a fool I was to cry so much," she said to herself as she packed her _tampipi._ Her fingers struck against the locket and she pressed it to her lips, but immediately wiped them from fear of contagion, for that locket set with diamonds and emeralds had come from a leper.

Ah, then, if she should catch that disease she could not get married.
As it became lighter, she could see her grandfather seated in a corner, following all her movements with his eyes, so she caught up her _tampipi_ of clothes and approached him smilingly to kiss his hand.

The old man blessed her silently, while she tried to appear merry.

"When father comes back, tell him that I have at last gone to college--my mistress talks Spanish.