Ay, senor! I do not know what has happened here; surely the devil must have got loose in our upper cloister! How these people have changed to me!" Luna guessed Don Antolin's thoughts and his allusions to the devil who had got loose in the cloister.

That devil was himself.

No doubt Silver Stick was right.

Without intending it he had introduced discord into the Cathedral.

He had sought calm and forgetfulness in that refuge, and the spirit of rebellion had followed him even into this concealment.