Contigo Pan y Cebolla

by Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza

ACTO CUARTO, ESCENA CUARTA

*ha caído un rayo en Santa Bárbara*: Mesonero Romanos in "El antiguo Madrid" mentions the convent of Santa Barbara at the end of the *Calle de Hortaleza*, a well-known street in Madrid, but states that the building has been removed to make way for private residences.

*y lo que cae*: 'and with what he can pick up.'

*me parece usted pieza*: 'it strikes me you're something of a wag.'

*todas las colegialas de Loreto*: 'all the girls who attend the convent of Our Lady of Loreto.' The convent was so named in honor of the Virgin Mary, an image of whom, called *Nuestra Señora de Loreto*, had been brought from Rome and set up in the adjoining church of the same name. The school at first was for poor children; but later Philip IV established here a convent for orphan girls of good family.