"You are very headstrong, if you will only reflect." "It is not my head, it is my heart," answered Dolores.

"And besides," she added with a smile, "I am your daughter, and you are not of a very gentle and yielding disposition, are you ?" "No," he answered with hesitation, "perhaps not." Then his face relaxed a little, and he almost smiled too.
It seemed as if the peace were made and as if thereafter there need not be trouble again.

But it was even then not far off, for it was as impossible for Mendoza to yield as it would have been for Dolores to give up her love for Don John.

She did not see this, and she fancied that a real change had taken place in his disposition, so that he would forget that he had threatened to send her to Las Huelgas, and not think of it again.
"What is done cannot be undone," he said, with renewed sadness.

"You will never quite believe that you have been everything to me during your life.