The sun was setting, and the shadows were growing long. Some one was coming. It was the Doña, looking, in the evening light, unusually monumental, and, as on that September afternoon last year when the children were clinging round her skirts, symbolic. But now Teresa knew of what she was the symbol.
She came up to her and laid her hand on her head. “Come in, my child; it’s getting chilly. I’ve had a fire lit in your room.”
Paris,
4 rue de Chevreuse,
1923.
GLASGOW: W. COLLINS SONS AND CO. LTD.
FOOTNOTES
[1] The Morería was the quarter in Spanish towns assigned to Moorish colonists.
[2] A Spaniard who could prove that his ancestry was free from any taint of Jewish or Moorish blood, was known as an “Old Christian.”
[3] It was looked upon as a grave crime for a Christian to do this.