, saying, "Get up, senora
Teodosia, and let us be gone; for I will accompany you on your journey,
and never quit your side until I see Marco Antonio become your lawful
husband, or until he or I shall be a dead man;" and so saying, he opened
the windows and the doors of the room.

Teodosia had longed for daylight that she might see what manner of man
he was with whom she had been conversing all night; but when she beheld
him, she would have been glad that it had never dawned, but that her
eyes had remained in perpetual darkness, for the cavalier who stood
before her was her brother! At sight of him she was stupefied with
emotion, her face was deadly pale, and she could not utter a word. At
last, rallying her spirits, she drew her dagger, and presenting the
handle to her brother, fell at his feet, and gasped out, "Take it, dear
senor and brother, punish the fault I have committed, and satisfy your
resentment, for my offence deserves no mercy, and I do not desire that
my repentance should be accepted as an atonement. The only thing I
entreat is that you will deprive me of life, but not of my honour; for
though I have placed it in manifest danger by absenting myself from the
house of my parents, yet its semblance may be preserved before the world
if my death be secret."

Her brother regarded her fixedly, and although her wantonness excited
him to vengeance, he could not withstand this affecting appeal. With a
placable countenance he raised her from the ground, and consoled her as
well as he could, telling her, among other things, that as he knew of no
punishment adequate to the magnitude of her folly, he would suspend the
consideration of that matter for the present; and as he thought that
fortune had not yet made all remedy impossible, he thought it bettor to
seek one than at once to take vengeance on her for her levity. These
words restored Teodosia to life; the colour returned to her cheeks, and
her despair gave way to revived hope. Don Rafael (that was the brother's
name) would speak no more on the subject, but bade her change her name
from Teodosia to Teodoro, and decided that they should both proceed at
once to Salamanca in quest of Marco Antonio, though he hardly expected
to find him there; for as they were intimate friends, they would have
met had he been at the university, unless indeed Marco Antonio might
have shunned him from a consciousness of the wrong he had done him. The
new Teodoro acquiesced in everything