At present, you and I are in difficulties, is it not ?" Iris recognized the voluble, jerky speech.

A wild foreboding gripped her heart until she was like to shudder under its fierce anguish.
"You, Captain San Benavides ?" she asked, and her utterance was unnaturally calm.
"I, mademoiselle," he said, "and, alas! I am alone.

May I come in?
It is not well to show a light at this hour, seeing that the island is overrun with infuriated soldiers." The concluding sentence was addressed to Luisa Gomez in Portuguese.
Realizing instinctively that the man came as a friend, she stood aside, trembling, on the verge of tears.

He entered, and the door was closed behind him.

The yellow gleam of the lamp fell on his smart uniform, and gilded the steel scabbard of his sword.