"

_Manuela_: "Yes."

_Judge_: "He professed his passion for you, gave you presents?"

_Manuela_: "Yes."

_Judge_: "You persuaded him to take you away from Tormes?"

_Manuela_: "No."

_Judge_: "What do I hear?"

_Manuela_: "I said 'No.' It was because he said that he loved me that
I went with him. He wished to marry me, he said."

_Judge_: "What! Don Bartolome Ramonez marry a public dancer! Be
careful what you say there, Manuela."

_Manuela_: "He told me so, and I believed him."

_Judge_: "I pass on. You were with him until the April of this
year--you were with him two years?"

_Manuela_: "Yes."

_Judge_: "And then you found another lover and deserted him?"

_Manuela_: "No. I ran away from him by myself."

_Judge_: "But you found another lover?"

_Manuela_: "No."

_Judge_: "Be careful, Manuela. You will trip in a moment. You ran
away from Don Bartolome when you were at Pobledo, and you went to
Palencia. What did you do there?"

_Manuela_: "I cannot answer you."

_Judge_: "You mean that you will not?"

_Manuela_: "I mean that I cannot."

_Judge_: "This is wilful prevarication again. I have authority to
compel you."

_Manuela_: "You have none."

_Judge_: "We shall see, Manuela, we shall see. You left Palencia on
the 12th of May in the company of an Englishman?"

_Manuela_: "Yes."

_Judge_: "He is here in court?"

_Manuela_: "Yes."

_Judge_: "Do you see him at this moment?"

_Manuela_: "Yes." (But she did not turn her head to look at Manvers
until the Judge forced her.)

_Judge_: "I am not he. I am not likely to have taken you from Palencia
and your proceedings there. Look at the Englishman." (She hesitated
for a little while, and then turned her eyes upon him with such gentle
modesty that Manvers felt nearer to loving her than he had ever done.
He rose slightly in his seat and bowed to her: she returned the salute
like a young queen. The Judge had gained nothing by that.) "I see
that you treat each other with ceremony; there may be reasons for that.
We shall soon see. This gentleman then took you away from Palencia in
the direction of Valladolid, and made you certain proposals. What were
they?"

_Manuela_: "He proposed that I should return to Palencia."

_Judge_: "And you refused?"

_Manuela_: "Yes."

_Judge_: "Why?"

_Manuela_: "I could not go back to Palencia."

_Judge_: "Why?"

_Manuela_: "There were many reasons. One was that I was afraid of
seein