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Updated: June 5, 2025
"You could pass Eudaldo well enough, I am sure, but it might be another matter if the hall were full of servants, as it is certain that our father has given a general order that you are not to be allowed to go out. We may wait an hour for the man to wake." Dolores instinctively tried the door, but it was solidly fastened from the outside.
A harsh and regular sound came from a distance, resembling that made by a pit-saw steadily grinding its way lengthwise through a log of soft pine wood. "Eudaldo is asleep," said Inez, and even at this moment she could hardly suppress a half-hysterical laugh. "I shall have to make a tremendous noise to wake him. The danger is that it may bring some one else, -the women, the rest of the servants."
"It is of no use, dear! The door is bolted." "They will open it for me. Old Eudaldo is always within hearing, and he will do anything for me. Besides, I shall seem to have been shut in by mistake, do you see? I shall say that I am hungry, thirsty, that I am cold, that in locking you in our father locked me in, too, because I was asleep. Then Eudaldo will open the door for me.
But Dolores had already gone out, and a moment later the heavy door swung back to its place, and it was too late to call her. Like an immaterial spirit, Inez slipped away from the place where she stood and went back to Dolores' room, knowing that Eudaldo would very probably go and knock where he supposed her sister to be a prisoner, before slipping the outer bolt again.
"Your father has gone back to his duty, my dear you need not be afraid." "Yes, but Eudaldo is outside he hears everything when he is not asleep. What is it, Princess? Why are you here?" "I wish to talk with you a little," replied Doña Ana, whispering now, to please the girl. "Can we not get a light? Why did you put out the lamp? I thought you were in another room." "I was frightened.
She had seen Eudaldo furbish her father's weapons in that way since she had been a child. It had all come so suddenly in the end.
The two girls heard him moving towards the outer entrance. Then they heard the woman go away, shutting the other door behind her, as soon as she was sure that Eudaldo was really awake. Then Inez called him softly. "Eudaldo? Here it was I that knocked you must let me out, please come nearer." "Doña Inez?" asked the old man, standing still. "Hush!" answered the girl. "Come nearer."
"And open the front door for me, please," she said, putting her lips just where the panel was opening. Then she drew back into the darkness. The door was wide open now, and Eudaldo was already shuffling towards the entrance. Dolores went forward, bending her head, and trying to affect her sister's step.
Don John would have come to the door, and Eudaldo would have let him in because no one could refuse him anything and he was the King's brother. He would have spent half an hour with her in the little drawing-room, and it would have been a constrained meeting, with Inez near, though she would presently have left them alone.
Eudaldo would not understand her return, after being told that she was to stay with the Princess, and she would be obliged to give him some explanation. Then her voice would betray her, and there would be terrible trouble.
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