Once inside the sitting-room her tears ceased; she looked round with astonishment, no doubt surprised at finding herself there.

Her eyes examined everything with a sort of stupefaction, as though marvelling that everything should be in the same place as five years before, and with an exactitude that made her doubt if such a long time had really elapsed.
Nothing seemed changed in that little world under the shadow of the Cathedral.

She only, who had left it in the bloom of her youth, now returned aged and broken.
There was a long silence between the three people.
"Your room, Sagrario," said Gabriel at last gently, "is the same as when you left it.

Go in and do not come out till I call you.

Be calm and do not cry; trust me.