"I had a note from her at Saragossa, before they moved her to Pampeluna," answered Marcos with a smile. "It was rather badly spelt."
"And...?" asked Sarrion.
Marcos did not reply to this comprehensive interrogation.
"You have come to some decision?" Sarrion suggested.
"I have come to the usual decision that you are quite right in your suspicions. They want that money, and they intend to get it by forcing her into religion and inducing her to sign the usual testament made by nuns, conferring all their earthly goods upon the order into which they are admitted."
Then Sarrion went back to his original question.
"And...?"
"As soon as we see signs of their being likely to succeed I propose to see Juanita again."
"You can do it despite them?"
"Yes, I can do it."