"If Don John tries to enter here, to see you, I will kill him.

To-morrow, you shall go to Las Huelgas." Dolores made no answer and did not even turn her head.

He left her and went out.

She heard his heavy tread in the hall beyond, and she heard a bolt slipped at the further door.

She was imprisoned for the night, for the entrance her father had fastened was the one which cut off the portion of the apartment in which the sisters lived from the smaller part which he had reserved for himself.