I gave her an account of the many good qualities and characteristics of the young man, and addressed her in these words:  “And neither do I wish that you should attempt this without the permission and knowledge of your father, because I am not setting about to steal away or ruin the respect which I have for him, and have had all my life.”  She answered me by writing that she was pleased at the choice that was made of her person, and that it should be considered with her father.  I responded with a second note in which I thanked her for her good wishes and said that I would speak with her father.  At the same time I summoned the auditor Almazan and told him how much I desired that that marriage should be consummated.  He told me that he would accept it at once, if he dared dispense with the permission of your Majesty.  The truth is, that I did not tell him that I had written to his daughter, and accordingly when someone told him, it appears that he resented it somewhat; but when the letters came to his hand, and he saw their terms, which were so unworthy of suspicion, he was appeased.  All this came to the knowledge of the governor, after we landed; and, as he does nothing good, he made poison of the whole matter.  Without seeing a letter or complaint against me, it appeared to him expedient to have a meeting of religious prelates for my case, and he did so accordingly.  He called them together in one of our convents, named [San] Francisco del Monte, [14] where he placed before them the letters without having examined them, and without displaying them; and, with the utmost ill-feeling and evil intention he asked their opinion as to whether it was expedient to write a letter against me to your Majesty.  The religious took it ill, as they should so bad a speech, and did not answer his proposition, considering that he was so causelessly throwing suspicion upon the purity and integrity of their prelate, who had not even been twenty days in the country.  All this came to my knowledge within two hours, and, as the matter was so serious, and so great an injustice had been done, I confess that I was much more exasperated than was fitting; and I uttered against him various harsh remarks—­although all were true, and about things which were publicly told.  I learned that he is writing to your Majesty against me, and I desire that your Majesty should not lack a true knowledge of the affair, which is, as I have said; and everything made less or more, your Majesty may believe, is not truth.  Nor could any one, from any word or sign of mine, have understood an offense to God in that, or even a venial sin; and, if anything could be added without the suspicions conceived by his malice, or rather by his evil life and habits, the fault which I was guilty of was becoming too angry.  But I assure your Majesty that I had more than reason enough—­in the first place because he had stained that which is so important for prelates of the church, namely, purity; and, in the second place,