While Sancho Panza and his wife, Teresa Cascajo, held the above irrelevant conversation, Don Quixote's niece and housekeeper were not idle, for by a thousand signs they began to perceive that their uncle and master meant to give them the slip the third time, and once more betake himself to his, for them, ill-errant chivalry. They strove by all the means in their power to divert him from such an unlucky scheme; but it was all preaching in the desert and hammering cold iron.
En tanto que Sancho Panza y su mujer Teresa Cascajo pasaron la impertinente referida plática, no estaban ociosas la sobrina y el ama de don Quijote, que por mil señales iban coligiendo que su tío y señor quería desgarrarse la vez tercera, y volver al ejercicio de su, para ellas, mal andante caballería: procuraban por todas las vías posibles apartarle de tan mal pensamiento, pero todo era predicar en desierto y majar en hierro frío.