"_Mille gracias, senor_!" answered Carlos; "we should greatly like to stay here for the night, and rest, for this day has been an exceptionally trying and fatiguing one for us; but Mateo's instructions that we should rejoin him at the earliest possible moment were imperative and must not be neglected.  But if we may be permitted to stay long enough to share your people's supper, we will gladly do so."