CHAPTER XXIVFrancisco took the way by which Angelica had come, as though he were returning with her. Having a doubt as they turned to the castle gate whether he might not have misunderstood her to mean that he was required there, she asked: “Is your lodging far?”
“I lodged with Señor Ramegas in the town at first, but I have a place in the castle now, so that I may be near my charge.”
“We shall be alone there?”
“Yes,” he said, wondering that she did not begin at once what she had to say. “Is it so private as that?”
“It is a small thing, but it is important to me.”
That was not what he had expected to hear. He said only: “Well, we shall be soon there.”
He led to a little chamber, much smaller than that which Angelica had, of which there were many within the castle, which was adapted to
