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 saying anything when it is as plain as day that everything has been said already? No, there is nothing in them, there is not one glimmer of sense!

. Are you perfectly sure?

. Probably that explains why I concealed them so carefully, where it was easy for you to lay your hands on them as soon as you descended to breaking open my furniture, with the help of the servants, no doubt, as further evidence of your delicacy and good taste.

. At least I still retain womanliness enough to respect myself, and I shall not soon forget how to do so. I am quite equal to discovering what I have a right to know, in whatever way may suit my convenience.

. If you had any regard for the truth when you had discovered it. I should be delighted. Instead, all you do is to distort it, and invent lies, which have no existence outside of your own imagination.

. Yes, I have been dreaming. None of this is true; it is all imagination, a fit of nerves. Well, I have decided to cure myself. I have come here to forget—to find peace, repose!

. Yes, and you have lost no time either in rushing back to stage the spectacle. I wonder what your father will say? What will Isabel think? What will the world think?

. All you need worry about is what I think. I did not come here to make a scene—on the contrary, I came to avoid one, to remain in my own home in peace, as if we had never seen each other, as if nothing had ever happened between us, as if all this were a bad dream! Do you understand me?

. María Antonia!

. What are you talking about? Do you suppose that I will consent to this?