He returned to the duke's castle and told him all, what the conditions of the combat were, and how Don Quixote was now, like a loyal knight-errant, returning to keep his promise of retiring to his village for a year, by which time, said the bachelor, he might perhaps be cured of his madness; for that was the object that had led him to adopt these disguises, as it was a sad thing for a gentleman of such good parts as Don Quixote to be a madman.
Volvióse por el castillo del duque y contóselo todo, con las condiciones de la batalla, y que ya don Quijote volvía a cumplir, como buen caballero andante, la palabra de retirarse un año en su aldea, en el cual tiempo podía ser, dijo el bachiller, que sanase de su locura; que ésta era la intención que le había movido a hacer aquellas transformaciones, por ser cosa de lástima que un hidalgo tan bien entendido como don Quijote fuese loco.