To be sure, her excellenza also gave Don Luis more than one secret audience.
"During Lent a messenger from Fraulein Van Hoogstraten's father arrived with the news, that at Easter he, himself, would come to Brussels from Haarlem, and the marquis from Castle Rochebrun, and on Maundy Thursday I received orders to dress the private chapel with flowers, engage posthorses, and do several other things.

On Good Friday, the day of our Lord's crucifixion--I wish I were telling lies--early in the morning of Good Friday the signorina was dressed in all her bridal finery.

Don Luis appeared clad in black, proud and gloomy as usual, and by candle-light, before sunrise on a cold, damp morning--it seems to me as if it were only yesterday--the Castilian was married to our young mistress.

The padrona, a Spanish officer and I were the witnesses.

At seven o'clock the carriage drove up, and after it was packed Don Luis handed me a little box to put in the vehicle.