*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.
ESCENA QUINTA
*las Salesas*: convent of the nuns of Our Lady of the Visitation. Mesonero Romanos ("El antiguo Madrid," p. 253) writes of it: "El convento puede llamarse un verdadero palacio regio."
ESCENA SEXTA
*ello ninguna tenía: ello es que ninguna tenía*; 'it is a fact that not one of them had.'
*vamos allá*: 'no one else will.'