"And what gentlemen shall we have?"
"That will be my part."
"Shall you invite the men on the paper?"
"We will see; according as the cloth holds out."
"And Carlitos?"
"Yes; it will be his duty to illuminate the 'reunion on all disputed points."
"And Mendoza?"
"Could we think of leaving out the most precious ornament?... But then, he is very much engaged just at present with his marriage and politics."
This business of the invitations having been settled, and it having been decided that certain letters should be written and certain calls made, Maximina remained for some time pensive and melancholy.
At last, taking her husband's hand and looking at him lovingly and sadly, she said:—