It was as she had foreseen it.

She heard a scornful woman's laugh, and as she passed along, she saw how the older ladies shrank from her and how the young ones eyed her with a look of hard curiosity, as if she were some wild creature, dangerous to approach, though worth seeing from a distance.
But the men pressed close to her as she passed, and she heard them tell each other that she was a brave woman who could dare to save her father by such means, and there were quick applauding words as she passed, and one said audibly that he could die for a girl who had such a true heart, and another answered that he would marry her if she could forget Don John.

And they did not speak without respect, but in earnest, and out of the fulness of their admiration.
At last she was at the door, and she paused to speak before going out.
"Have I saved his life ?" she asked, looking up to the old Prince's kind face.

"Will they believe me ?" "They believe you," he answered.

"But your father's life is in the King's hands.