But, O senor, you have already stayed too long for my happiness." "Too long, for your happiness, senorita! If I thought--would you really like me to stay longer, to postpone this expedition indefinitely, or abandon it altogether ?" "Oh, so much, senor, so much.

The mere suggestion makes me almost happy again." "And if I make your wish my law, and say that it is abandoned, how then ?" "You will make me happier than I can tell you, and your debtor for life." "And why would it make you so happy, dear Juanita ?" I asked, tenderly, at the same time looking into her beautiful eyes and taking her unresisting hand.
"Why! Oh, don't you know?
Have you not guessed ?" "I think I have; all the same, I should like the avowal from your own lips, dear Juanita." "Because--because if you stay, dear," she murmured, lowering her eyes, and blushing deeply, "if you stay, dear Salvador will stay too." "Dear Salvador! Dear Salvador! How--why--when?
I--I beg your pardon, senorita.

I had no idea," I stammered, utterly confounded by this surprising revelation of her secret and my own stupidity.
"I thought you knew--that you had guessed." "I mean I had no idea that it had gone so far," I said, recovering my self-possession with a great effort.

"So you and Carmen are betrothed." "We love.

But if he goes on this dreadful expedition I am sure my father would not consent, and Salvador says that as he has promised to take part in it he cannot go back on his word.