I was already well accustomed to such sights, for many of those who sought my master's counsel had good cause to weep, and I passed her without remark.

But when I was come into the room where he received his patients, I mentioned that I had met such a person and asked if it was any one whom I knew.
'Ah! nephew,' said Fonseca, who always called me thus by now, and indeed began to treat me with as much affection as though I were really of his blood, 'a sad case, but you do not know her and she is no paying patient.

A poor girl of noble birth who had entered religion and taken her vows, when a gallant appears, meets her secretly in the convent garden, promises to marry her if she will fly with him, indeed does go through some mummery of marriage with her--so she says--and the rest of it.

Now he has deserted her and she is in trouble, and what is more, should the priests catch her, likely to learn what it feels like to die by inches in a convent wall.

She came to me for counsel and brought some silver ornaments as the fee.