The barber did not care to answer Sancho lest by his plain speaking he should disclose what the curate and he himself were trying so hard to conceal; and under the same apprehension the curate had asked the canon to ride on a little in advance, so that he might tell him the mystery of this man in the cage, and other things that would amuse him.
No quiso responder el barbero a Sancho, porque no descubriese con sus simplicidades lo que él y el cura tanto procuraban encubrir; y, por este mesmo temor, había el cura dicho al canónigo que caminasen un poco delante: que él le diría el misterio del enjaulado, con otras cosas que le diesen gusto.