Again there was sunny silence, then in at the door came the tall, muscular, gray-eyed, silver-haired man whom I had met the day King Boabdil surrendered Granada.
He made reverence to the Queen and the King and to the Archbishop.

It was the Queen who spoke to him and that gently.
"Master Christopherus, we have had a thousand businesses, and so our matter here has waited and waited.

Today comes unaware this quiet hour and we will give it to you.

Here with us are the Archbishop and others who have been our counsellors, and here is Don Alonzo de Quintantella who hath always stood your friend.

In all the hurly-burly we yet took time, two days ago, to sit in council and come to conclusion.