An agent of the Inquisition, dressed in black, enters from the street.
The Agent. (Going to them) Lord Cardenos, His Eminence prays you to come without delay, for urgent business.
Cardenos. I shall come at once!—This, Master Cleofas, may have something to do with your Mooress.
Cleofas. Good! Good!
Cardenos and the man go into the street. They play a saraband in the banquet hall.
Scene Four
The same, Don Enrique, Lopez de Padilla, guests, men and women, etc.
Don Enrique, accompanied by Lopez de Padilla and other cavaliers and gentlemen, descends from the banquet chamber in the midst of an uproar of congratulations and salutations, the cavaliers kissing the hands of the women. The guests begin to disperse. Most of them go out of the door into the street; others go out at the left. There is laughter as they go away.
Doña Rufina, Doña Fabia and Doña Syrena. (To Enrique, laughing and making courtesies) Good night, my lord.
He conducts them to the door opening on the street. Returning, he finds Padilla and some friends. Meanwhile the servants put out the lanterns and the patio is lighted only by the moon.