He then asked Dorothea how she had managed to reach a place so far removed from her own home, and she in a few fitting words told all that she had previously related to Cardenio, with which Don Fernando and his companions were so delighted that they wished the story had been longer; so charmingly did Dorothea describe her misadventures. When she had finished Don Fernando recounted what had befallen him in the city after he had found in Luscinda's bosom the paper in which she declared that she was Cardenio's wife, and never could be his.
Preguntó luego a Dorotea le dijese cómo había venido a aquel lugar tan lejos del suyo. Ella, con breves y discretas razones, contó todo lo que antes había contado a Cardenio, de lo cual gustó tanto don Fernando y los que con él venían, que quisieran que durara el cuento más tiempo: tanta era la gracia con que Dorotea contaba sus desventuras.