What was there in his nature, or what had there been in his selfish and lazy life, that was akin to such fine frenzies?
As he remembered it all, he hardly knew himself for the same old Coronado.
Well, being safe again, he was a devoted lover again, and he must get on with his courtship.

Considering that Clara and Thurstane, if left much together here in the pueblo, might lead each other into the temptation of a betrothal, he decided that he must be at hand to prevent such a catastrophe, and so here he was.

Presently he began to talk to the girl in Spanish; then he begged the aunt's pardon for speaking what was to her an unknown tongue; but he had, he said, some family matters for his cousin's ear; would Mrs.Stanley be so good as to excuse him?
"Certainly," returned that far-sighted woman, guessing what the family matters might be, and approving them.

"By the way, I have something to do," she added.

"I must attend to it immediately." By this time she remembered all about her nightmare, and she was in a state of inflammation as to the Moqui religion.