Only the threat of her dire displeasure had restrained Hozier from an open quarrel with him.

Her position, difficult enough already, would become intolerable if De Sylva's daughter became jealous, and she had no doubt whatsoever that San Benavides would seek to propitiate the woman he loved by callously telling the woman he had promised to marry that his affections were bestowed elsewhere.
Her heart sank when she discovered this new maelstrom in her sea of troubles; but here was Carmela herself speaking to her, and in English: "So you are Iris Yorke!" the girl was saying.

"I have heard so much of you, yet you are so utterly different from what I imagined." "You have heard of _me_ ?" repeated Iris, and surprise helped her to smile with something of her wonted self-possession.
"Yes, on board the steamer.

We sailed from Southampton, and had little else to talk of during the voyage.

But, of course, you cannot understand.