I called my waiting-maid to me, that there might be a witness on earth besides those in Heaven, and again Don Fernando renewed and repeated his oaths, invoked as witnesses fresh saints in addition to the former ones, called down upon himself a thousand curses hereafter should he fail to keep his promise, shed more tears, redoubled his sighs and pressed me closer in his arms, from which he had never allowed me to escape; and so I was left by my maid, and ceased to be one, and he became a traitor and a perjured man.
Llamé a mi criada, para que en la tierra acompañase a los testigos del cielo; tornó don Fernando a reiterar y confirmar sus juramentos; añadió a los primeros nuevos santos por testigos; echóse mil futuras maldiciones, si no cumpliese lo que me prometía; volvió a humedecer sus ojos y a acrecentar sus suspiros; apretóme más entre sus brazos, de los cuales jamás me había dejado; y con esto, y con volverse a salir del aposento mi doncella, yo dejé de serlo y él acabó de ser traidor y fementido.