whose features contain the lineaments of appreciation.

Clack and the rhythm swims to Sancha’s head.

Whom then shall she favour with a rose?

Perhaps she will give no look, but flicker

flicker for a moment the darkness of her eyelids

and freeze the heart in Pedro’s body beating.

The rhythm ceases; Pedro is not the favoured one.

A gleam of dagger and muffled fall of a body.