ESCENA SEGUNDA
*geringonza*: cf. vocabulary, *jerigonza*.
*hágame decir: hágame el favor de decir.*
ESCENA TERCERA
*Ya las quisiera yo de tres y media*: 'I'd rather have them of three and a half.' Three and a half yards is the regulation quantity of material needed for making a man's shirt.
ESCENA SEXTA
*el día de los innumerables mártires de Zaragoza*: April 16, the feast-day of the eighteen martyrs condemned to death in Saragossa in the time of the emperor Diocletian.
*si usted podía ser dichosa*: note the imperfect indicative in an unreal condition.
*Sacedón*: watering-place in the province of Guadalajara, Spain.
*Nueva Holanda*: Australia.