"They will be expecting me in Barcelona; I have no news....

What will become of my vessel ?..." She who generally listened to these inquiries with a distraught air, not wishing to understand his timid insinuations, responded one afternoon unequivocally: "The time is approaching when you are going to fulfill your word of honor in regard to sacrificing yourself for me.

Soon you will be able to go to Barcelona, and I--I shall join you there.

If I am not able to go, we shall meet again....

The world is very small." Her thought did not go beyond this sacrifice exacted of Ferragut.