FOOTNOTES:
[14] Vide "Daybreak in Spain."
CHAPTER XIII.
NEW LIFE.
Has the English señor never called to see me?" was Alcala's abrupt question to Teresa as she came into his room.
The duenna was taken by surprise, and Alcala read assent in her look of confusion.
"Why was my friend not admitted at once?" cried the cavalier, in tones so angry and loud that his astonished hearers could scarcely believe that they came from lips which, but a day before, had seemed scarcely able to speak above a whisper.