He himself had been born the youngest son of the previous Keeper of the Queen’s Bulls, yet, as a child, he had felt that he was nobody. His elder brothers and sisters outshone him in everything and seemed always to take his parents’ attention away from him. As a youth watching Quilla dance with the bulls had become an obsession with him. He followed her every move, worshipping her. As a young man he took courage to speak with her and gradually, from talk about the finer points of bull dancing, their communication widened to everything that concerned them and finally blossomed into love.
It was her love for him that transformed him from gauche youth to confident man and it was with her help he proved himself to his father and was finally appointed to succeed him as Keeper of the Queen’s Bu
