What had she done? How could she have thrown away the magic castanets?
Quickly Catalina returned to the Myrtle Court. A palace attendant promised to search the pool for her. But when he did, the castanets were nowhere to be found.
The story goes that not until Catalina became a very old lady did she recover the castanets. And then nobody rightly knows how it came about.
But what we do know is that never again did Catalina see her sweetheart. For a year after he had left her, Hamet was killed in the wars.
If Catalina had not lost her temper, she would not have lost the magic castanets. And if she had not lost the magic castanets—well, would her story, perhaps, have been different?
ANOTHER VISIT TO JUAN
Several days passed before Pilar was able to leave her house and go to Juan's shop—several anxious days. Because that night, her grandfather had grown worse, and she had been obliged to call the doctor.