She, like him--or so took leave to think Juan Lepe--received at times too docilely word of authority, or that which they reckoned to be authority.

Princes of the Church could bring her to go against her purer thought.

The world as it is, dinging ever, "So important is wealth--so important is herald-nobility--so important is father-care in these respects for sons!" could make him take a tortuous and complicated way, could make him bow and cap, could make him rule with an ear for world's advice when he should have had only his book and his ship and his dream and a cheering cry "Onward!" Or so thinks Juan Lepe.

But Juan Lepe and all wait on full light.
He talked of her great nature, and her goodness to him.

Of how she understood when the King would not.