'What is done is done; do not add to my remorse.

What did you say, that you, the lady Otomie, were brought here to be tortured ?' 'Even so, and before my husband's eyes.

Why should Montezuma's daughter and the princess of the Otomie escape the fate of the emperor of the Aztecs?
If her womanhood does not protect her, has she anything to hope of her lost rank ?' 'Cortes knows nothing of this, I swear it,' said Marina.

'To the rest he has been driven by the clamour of the soldiers, who taunt him with stealing treasure that he has never found.

But of this last wickedness he is innocent.' 'Then let him ask his tool Sarceda of it.' 'As for Sarceda, I promise you, princess, that if I can I will avenge this threat upon him.