and without any means of proving my innocence to those who cannot know

how innocently I have come to be in this position; for what

arguments would persuade my parents that this gentleman entered my

"All these questions and answers passed through my mind in a moment;

but the oaths of Don Fernando, the witnesses he appealed to, the tears

he shed, and lastly the charms of his person and his high-bred

grace, which, accompanied by such signs of genuine love, might well

have conquered a heart even more free and coy than mine- these were