The sewing machine clicked from early morning till night in the house of the Lunas.

This and the hammering of the shoemaker were the only sounds of work that disturbed the holy silence of the upper cloister.
When Gabriel left his bed at sunrise, after a night of painful coughing, he would find Sagrario already in the entrance room preparing her machine for the day's work.

From the day following that of her return to the Cathedral she had devoted herself to work with sullen silence as a means of returning unnoticed to the Claverias, trusting that the people would forgive her past.

The gardener's widow procured her work, and so the sound of the stitching was continually heard in the old "habitacion," accompanied very often by melodies from the Chapel-master's harmonium.
The "Wooden Staff" moved about his house like a shadow.

He remained continually in the Cathedral or in the lower cloister, only coming up to the "habitacion" when it was absolutely necessary.