Joan dropped her voice to a lower tone and turned to Dona Rosita.

"And you have never seen him since ?" "Never." "I should--at least, I wouldn't have let it end in THAT way," said Joan in a positive whisper.
"Eh ?" said Dona Rosita, laughing.

"So eet is YOU, Juanita, that have the romance--eh?
Ah, bueno! 'you have the house--so I gif to you the lover also.' I place him at your disposition." She made a mock gesture of elaborate and complete abnegation.

"But," she added in Joan's ear, with a quick glance at Demorest, "do not let our hoosband eat him.

Even now he have the look to strangle ME.