"All this caution of mine, which he must have taken for coyness, had apparently the effect of increasing his wanton appetite—for that is the name I give to his passion for me; had it been what he declared it to be, you would not know of it now, because there would have been no occasion to tell you of it.
»Todos estos recatos míos, que él debía de tener por desdenes, debieron de ser causa de avivar más su lascivo apetito, que este nombre quiero dar a la voluntad que me mostraba; la cual, si ella fuera como debía, no la supiérades vosotros ahora, porque hubiera faltado la ocasión de decírosla.