But I awoke too late--my very being was enchained.

Still I may break from these engrossing thoughts--I would do so--pain shall be welcome, if it may in time atone for the involuntary sin of loving the stranger, and the yet more terrible one of grieving thee.

Oh, my father, do what thou wilt, command me as thou wilt--I am henceforth wholly thine." "And thou wilt wed Ferdinand, my child ?" "Would he still wish it, father, if he knew the whole?
And is it right, is it just, to wed him, and the truth still unrevealed?
Oh, if he do love me, as you say, how can I requite him by deceit ?" "Tell him not, tell him not," replied Henriquez, again fearfully agitated; "let none other know what has been.

What can it do, save to grieve him beyond thy power to repair?
No, no.

Once his, and all these fearful thoughts will pass away, and their sin be blotted out, in thy true faithfulness to one who loves thee.