Eudaldo would not understand her return, after being told that she was to stay with the Princess, and she would be obliged to give him some explanation.

Then her voice would betray her, and there would be terrible trouble.

If only she had kept her own cloak to cover Dolores' frock, she could have gone back and the servant would have thought it quite natural Indeed, by this time he would be expecting her.

It would be almost better to go in after all, and tell him some story of her having mistaken her sister's skirt for her own, and beg him to say nothing.

She could easily confuse him a little so that he would not really understand--and then in a few minutes she could be in her own room, safe and in bed, and far away from the dismal place where she was sitting and shivering as she listened to the owls.
She rose and began to walk towards her father's quarters.