"Dios! How strange! Will Don Pedro go with you into the town?"
"Certainly not," replied Jack, decisively; "it is too risky! Take him back with you to Tlatonac."
"Assuredly! My aunt would never forgive me if harm came to Don Pedro."
Rafael laughed heartily at the idea, for this undutiful nephew was much amused at the flirtation between Peter and Serafina.
"She will marry him, Juan! I am sure of it."
"Then we will have four weddings when the war is over, Rafael."
"Four weddings. Por todos santos! What mean you?"
"Myself and Dolores. Yourself and Doña Carmencita. Pedro and your aunt, and Señor Felipe and Doña Eulalia!"
"Eh, mi amigo!" cried Rafael, in a lively tone, "does my sister favour that cavalier? Dios! what says my father?"
"He does not know anything yet. But as he has consented to receive one heretic into his family, he can surely stretch a point, and receive two."