This I said in such a way that she understood perfectly all that passed between us, and throwing her arm round my neck she began with feeble steps to move towards the house; but as fate would have it (and it might have been very unfortunate if Heaven had not otherwise ordered it), just as we were moving on in the manner and position I have described, with her arm round my neck, her father, as he returned after having sent away the Turks, saw how we were walking and we perceived that he saw us; but Zoraida, ready and quickwitted, took care not to remove her arm from my neck, but on the contrary drew closer to me and laid her head on my breast, bending her knees a little and showing all the signs and tokens of fainting, while I at the same time made it seem as though I were supporting her against my will.
»Yo le dije esto de manera que ella me entendió muy bien a todas las razones que entrambos pasamos; y, echándome un brazo al cuello, con desmayados pasos comenzó a caminar hacia la casa; y quiso la suerte, que pudiera ser muy mala si el cielo no lo ordenara de otra manera, que, yendo los dos de la manera y postura que os he contado, con un brazo al cuello, su padre, que ya volvía de hacer ir a los turcos, nos vio de la suerte y manera que íbamos, y nosotros vimos que él nos había visto; pero Zoraida, advertida y discreta, no quiso quitar el brazo de mi cuello, antes se llegó más a mí y puso su cabeza sobre mi pecho, doblando un poco las rodillas, dando claras señales y muestras que se desmayaba, y yo, ansimismo, di a entender que la sostenía contra mi voluntad.