This declaration having been made, and the duke having settled in his own mind what he would do in the matter, the ladies in black withdrew, and the duchess gave orders that for the future they were not to be treated as servants of hers, but as lady adventurers who came to her house to demand justice; so they gave them a room to themselves and waited on them as they would on strangers, to the consternation of the other women-servants, who did not know where the folly and imprudence of Dona Rodriguez and her unlucky daughter would stop.
Tomado, pues, este apuntamiento, y habiendo imaginado el duque lo que había de hacer en el caso, las enlutadas se fueron, y ordenó la duquesa que de allí adelante no las tratasen como a sus criadas, sino como a señoras aventureras que venían a pedir justicia a su casa; y así, les dieron cuarto aparte y las sirvieron como a forasteras, no sin espanto de las demás criadas, que no sabían en qué había de parar la sandez y desenvoltura de doña Rodríguez y de su malandante hija.