we tasted again the bite of crude Spanish passion.

... He had got into her courtyard.

She was alone that night.

Through the black night-rain, he sang to her window bars:

Love me, love—ah, love me!

If you will not, I can follow

Into the highest of mountains;

And there, in the wooden cabin,

I will strangle you for your lover.

—That was but rustling of dripping plants in the dark.