Inquisitor Cardenal Patricia Albana de Soldano: at the ball she stood near Grande Ruiz, visibly uncomfortable with his rudeness to Colonel Arrigorriagakoa. And in the moment before the waiters drew their pistols, she looked away.
The Cardenal noticed. He crossed to her afterward and glared; she gave him a frightened look and stared at the wounded Crespo. What she knew, and how she came to know it, nobody can say; only that of the five Cardenales, she flinched first, and Verdugo watched her afterward. The most interesting silence in Castille.