"These squires," returned Dona Rodriguez, "are always our enemies; and as they are the haunting spirits of the antechambers and watch us at every step, whenever they are not saying their prayers (and that's often enough) they spend their time in tattling about us, digging up our bones and burying our good name.
-Siempre los escuderos -respondió doña Rodríguez- son enemigos nuestros; que, como son duendes de las antesalas y nos veen a cada paso, los ratos que no rezan, que son muchos, los gastan en murmurar de nosotras, desenterrándonos los huesos y enterrándonos la fama.