What I learned revived my hopes, and I was better pleased not to have found Don Fernando than to find him married, for it seemed to me that the door was not yet entirely shut upon relief in my case, and I thought that perhaps Heaven had put this impediment in the way of the second marriage, to lead him to recognise his obligations under the former one, and reflect that as a Christian he was bound to consider his soul above all human objects.
Esto que supe puso en bando mis esperanzas, y tuve por mejor no haber hallado a don Fernando, que no hallarle casado, pareciéndome que aún no estaba del todo cerrada la puerta a mi remedio, dándome yo a entender que podría ser que el cielo hubiese puesto aquel impedimento en el segundo matrimonio, por atraerle a conocer lo que al primero debía, y a caer en la cuenta de que era cristiano y que estaba más obligado a su alma que a los respetos humanos.