I remember the jewel-like air that day, the flowers, the trees, the sky.

Palms rustled above us, the brilliant small lizards darted around silver trunks.

"The fairest day!" quoth the Admiral.

"Ease at heart! I feel ease at heart." This night, as I sat beside him, wiling him to sleep, for he always had trouble sleeping--a most wakeful man!--he talked to me about the Queen.
Toward this great woman he ever showed veneration, piety, and knightly regard.

Of all in Spain she it was who best understood and shared that religious part in him that breathed upward, inspired, longed and strained toward worlds truly not on the earthly map.