Pallid was the cheek, yet calm and noble beyond degree was the marble face on which Inez gazed.

She caught the cold hand to her lips, and laid her cheek near his mouth, that she might know and realize that his spirit had indeed joined Mary's in the "land of rest." The icy touch extinguished every gleam of hope, and calmly she drew the cloak over the loved face, concealing every feature, then dropped her handkerchief upon the covered head, and drawing her mantilla like a shroud about her, went her way to wait for night and darkness.
Stretched on a couch in the home of the kind-hearted Senora who had received her, Inez noted the moments and hours as they passed.

An eternity seemed comprised in the time which elapsed from noon till dusk.

Again and again she raised her bowed head, and looked out on the slowly sinking sun.

It passed at length beyond her vision.