be patient! she will come again with softer tread, and with such honeyed words as will surely win their way.
She makes her appearance the second time with a handsome tray in hand, on which rest several kinds of tempting dulces. These she tells you have been sent by Doña So-and-So, also naming the street;
CRADLE OF A POOR BABY.
that she has heard you are a stranger, and sends these as a token of her regard.
Nothing remains but to accept them with many thanks for her interest, and the hope that she will soon call on you.
The next day the thoughtful woman again enters, with a humility of manner that even Uriah Heep could not excel. She makes all manner of inquiry as to the health of each inmate of the household. She then states that it was a mistake about the regalo she had brought
