By instinct she seemed aware of his entrance, for raising her bowed head, the black sparkling eyes flashed, and the broad brow wrinkled into a frown dark as night.

He approached her, and they stood face to face upon the hearth.
"What do you here, in the house of death, Mio Padre ?" "Inez, my queen of beauty, I have come to take the prize for which I toiled.

There are none now between us, no, not one.

You need not draw back so proudly." A bitter, contemptuous laugh rung out on the night air, and Inez folded her arms upon her bosom.
"Truly, Padre, we are well mated! You have opposed me, and I thwarted you! I am your equal: think you to intimidate me with threats?
You should know better!" "Inez, listen! I leave this place before many days.

My work is finished here; there are none to oppose, and I go elsewhere.