[Footnote 26: #No entra#,ñaClarinesyMañ _he won't come in_.]
[Footnote 27: #que entres#; supply _dice_ before #que#.]
[Footnote 28: #¡Que bien trabajo yo#, _for I work myself_.]
[Footnote 29: #el segundo intento#, _the second attempt (to make him enter)_.]
[Footnote 30: #En no distrayéndola#, _provided he does not distract you_.]
[Footnote 31: #No es porque sea mi prima#, _I don't say it because she is my cousin_.]
[Footnote 32: #que lo balda#; the subject of _balda_ is _ella_, and there is an ellipsis of _tales_ before _que_.]
[Footnote 33: #Como si lo yevara impreso#, _just as if I had it with me printed_.]
[Footnote 34: #¿No había e contestá?# _Of course he answered_.]
[Footnote 35: #el que tiene por qué callar#, _he who had best be silent_.]
[Footnote 36: #¡To será que no duerma en mi cama!# _I never shall get to bed after all!_]
[Footnote 37: #lo que aquí se guisa#, _what we are going to discuss here_; cf. the English slang, "what we are cooking up".]
[Footnote 38: #Pues usted dirá#, _go on, I am listening_.]
[Footnote 39: #La niña ... con ella.# _One gets tired of the girl opposite, after seeing her three days._]
[Footnote 40: #que elogiaba mucho don Quijote#; it is in the Adventure of the Galley-slaves (Part I, chapter 22) that Don Quijote delivers a eulogy of one who acts as intermediary between lovers. It has been called the only passage in which the words of the gentle-hearted knight sound out of character.]
[Footnote 41: #cuando seguramente ... nada más#, _when one has a lover_ (lo) _one certainly holds that opinion. Women never
defend men in general, they defend a particular man_.]
[Footnote 42: #La rabieta ... palabra#, _the fit of temper that came on you, of the silent kind, such that you would not speak ..._]
[Footnote 43: #un dedo manchado de tinta#; there appears to be in this scene a reminiscence of Beaumarchais' _Barbier de Séville_, Act II, sc. II, where Bartholo discovers the secret letter-writing of Rosine by means of an ink-stained finger and a missing sheet of paper.]
[Footnote 44: #Si es más bueno#, _why, he's the kindest man._]
[Footnote 46: #para seguir la vida tan sola#; _sola_ agrees, not with _vida_, but with _yo_, the implied subject of _seguir_.]
[Footnote 47: #ningún# is used on account of the negative idea contained in #eres muy niña para juzgar#, = _no puedes juzgar_.]