In short the beauty and goodness of Camilla, joined with the opportunity which the blind husband had placed in his hands, overthrew the loyalty of Lothario; and giving heed to nothing save the object towards which his inclinations led him, after Anselmo had been three days absent, during which he had been carrying on a continual struggle with his passion, he began to make love to Camilla with so much vehemence and warmth of language that she was overwhelmed with amazement, and could only rise from her place and retire to her room without answering him a word.
»En efecto, la hermosura y la bondad de Camila, juntamente con la ocasión que el ignorante marido le había puesto en las manos, dieron con la lealtad de Lotario en tierra. Y, sin mirar a otra cosa que aquella a que su gusto le inclinaba, al cabo de tres días de la ausencia de Anselmo, en los cuales estuvo en continua batalla por resistir a sus deseos, comenzó a requebrar a Camila, con tanta turbación y con tan amorosas razones que Camila quedó suspensa, y no hizo otra cosa que levantarse de donde estaba y entrarse a su aposento, sin respondelle palabra alguna.