"Thank God!" he cried warmly, "you are again restored to your senses. Are you sufficiently recovered to explain the scene that has taken place here?"
"A terrible scene, Don Pancho!" she replied, in a tremulous voice; "a scene, the bare remembrance of which still freezes me with terror."
"Are you strong enough to describe it to me?"
"I hope so," she replied. "Listen to me attentively, Don Pancho, for what I have to tell concerns you, perhaps, more than me."
"You mean this insolent summons, I suppose?" he remarked, showing it.
She glanced over it, and replied—
"I did not even know that such a paper had been addressed to you. But listen to me attentively."
"In the first place, have the goodness to explain to me what you just now said."
"Everything in its turn, General; I will not fail to explain everything, for the vengeance I thirst for must be complete."
"Oh!" he said, a flash of hatred gleaming from his eye, "set your heart at ease on that head,—whilst avenging myself, I will avenge you."