With this they fell asleep, and deep silence reigned all through the inn. The only persons not asleep were the landlady's daughter and her servant Maritornes, who, knowing the weak point of Don Quixote's humour, and that he was outside the inn mounting guard in armour and on horseback, resolved, the pair of them, to play some trick upon him, or at any rate to amuse themselves for a while by listening to his nonsense.
Sosegáronse con esto, y en toda la venta se guardaba un grande silencio; solamente no dormían la hija de la ventera y Maritornes, su criada, las cuales, como ya sabían el humor de que pecaba don Quijote, y que estaba fuera de la venta armado y a caballo haciendo la guarda, determinaron las dos de hacelle alguna burla, o, a lo menos, de pasar un poco el tiempo oyéndole sus disparates.