It is she who rules everything, and Don Sebastian, who is so terrible with everyone else, becomes like an angel when he sees her.

He rages and screams and bites the days when he is ill, but if Dona Visita appears, he controls himself at once; he suffers in silence, moans like a child, and it is sufficient for her to say a soft word, or give him a caress for His Eminence to slobber with delight.

He loves her dearly." "But what is she ?" asked Gabriel with interest.
"Clearly she is what you think.

What else could she be?
She was from her childhood in the college for noble ladies, and as soon as the cardinal came to Toledo he took her out, and brought her to the palace.

What a blind infatuation is Don Sebastian's! And the thing is, the object is hardly worth it--a very thin, pale little girl, with large eyes and a soft skin; that is all.