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For a whole week Quentin walked through the Calle del Sol day and night, hoping to see Rafaela without going to her house. It did not seem expedient to him to call again so soon; he was afraid of being considered inopportune; and he would have liked it had chance -- more apparent than real -- granted him a meeting with Rafaela while he was strolling about the neighbourhood of the palace.
One warm night in January, Quentin left his house with the intention of walking by the palace in the Calle del Sol.