Leonela, as he told her, stanched her lady's blood, which was no more than sufficed to support her deception; and washing the wound with a little wine she bound it up to the best of her skill, talking all the time she was tending her in a strain that, even if nothing else had been said before, would have been enough to assure Anselmo that he had in Camilla a model of purity. To Leonela's words Camilla added her own, calling herself cowardly and wanting in spirit, since she had not enough at the time she had most need of it to rid herself of the life she so much loathed.
»Leonela tomó, como se ha dicho, la sangre a su señora, que no era más de aquello que bastó para acreditar su embuste; y, lavando con un poco de vino la herida, se la ató lo mejor que supo, diciendo tales razones, en tanto que la curaba, que, aunque no hubieran precedido otras, bastaran a hacer creer a Anselmo que tenía en Camila un simulacro de la honestidad. »Juntáronse a las palabras de Leonela otras de Camila, llamándose cobarde y de poco ánimo, pues le había faltado al tiempo que fuera más necesario tenerle, para quitarse la vida, que tan aborrecida tenía.