He was introduced to Wilhelm as Don Antonio Gorra, and Pilar explained afterward that Don Antonio was a lawyer, an old friend of her family, and that he conducted her business affairs for her.

For a time she had long daily consultations, to which Wilhelm was not invited.

As soon as he left, she would come to Wilhelm with a significant and mysterious air, evidently expecting that he would ask what all this putting together of heads might mean.

As he did not evince the slightest curiosity, she grew impatient at last, and asked with assumed lightness: "Are you not at all jealous, you fish-blooded German ?" "Jealous?
No, I certainly am not.

Besides which, you give me no cause." "Indeed! and what about my tete-a-tetes with Don Antonio ?" "Oh, Don Antonio!" laughed Wilhelm.
"You are quite right, sweetheart, but it aggravates me that you should not want to know what he and I are brewing.