It will be as if we worked together; the memory must help to make us both strong." He bent lower, drew her closer to him, and held her thus in silence.
"Yes," he spoke at last, as though in thought, "I shall try to remember and be patient, so long as you feel it must be so." They were sitting there still, the barest glimmer of twilight brightening the window above, their hands clasped, when Mercedes came back, overflowing with light-heartedness.
"Si, si, sure I did eet," she announced happily, dancing forward into the centre of the darkened room, and seemingly blind to the two before her.

"Eet ees I that am to ride.

_Bueno_! eet vill be mooch fun! Senor Brown he not like let me go; he tink I do all eet for him.

Oh, de conceit of de men, ven I care not for anyting but de fun, de good time! But I talk him long vile, an' Beell he talk, an' maybe he say _si_ for to git us rid of.

Tink you not eet vas so, senor ?".