"The meal will be over, now.

I will take you to an apartment near the banqueting hall, and will leave you there while I tell Cortez about you, and will then lead you to him." Seeing how confident Malinche was as to the reception she could procure for him, Roger awaited her return, to the chamber where she had placed him, with little anxiety.

In a quarter of an hour she returned, and beckoned him to follow.
"I have told him," she said.

"It did not seem to him strange that some vessel should have been driven by the storms and wrecked here.
He asked no questions as to how many years ago it was.

I told him you were a young boy at the time, and have forgotten all but a few words of the language; and how, when you grew to be a man, you were sold to some Mexican merchants, and would have been sacrificed to the gods had you not made your escape.