Then, hearing the Queen's approach, he would instantly have been gone, but alack, the small door is barred!--As for fisherman yonder, few look at squire when knight is in presence!" No time to debate his offer, which indeed was both wise and kind! Chamberlains flung open the door.

In came the Queen, with her the Princess Juana and several of her ladies.

Beside her walked Fernando de Talavera, Her Highness's confessor, yesterday Bishop of Avila but now Archbishop of Granada.

Behind him moved two lesser ecclesiastics, and with these Don Alonzo de Quintanella, Comptroller-General of Castile.
Others followed, nobles and cavaliers, two soberly clad men who looked like secretaries, a Franciscan friar, three or four pages.

The room was large and had a table covered with a rich cloth, two great chairs and a few lesser ones.
The painter and Don Enrique bent low to the Majesty of Castile.