[Footnote 21: #me lo dice a mí#; the present is used with the sense of a future, and the latter, in turn, for an imperative.]

[Footnote 22: #¿Tú ya no vuelves#, you will not go again?]

[Footnote 23: #Y no se diga a las de usted#, and, needless to say, at yours.]

[Footnote 24: #Poco se necesita#, not much is required for that.]

[Footnote 25: #Daría# and #Crispín# are types of the uneducated but racy Spanish peasant, such as the Quinteros take especial delight in depicting. Encarna of La zagala, Quintica of Mundo, mundillo … and Lucío of El genio alegre are the most important of the spirited figures of country youths and maidens which appear in their comedies.]

[Footnote 26: #No entra#, he won't come in.]

[Footnote 27: #que entres#; supply dice before #que#.]

[Footnote 28: #¡Que bien trabajo yo#, for I work myself.]

[Footnote 29: #el segundo intento#, the second attempt (to make him enter).]

[Footnote 30: #En no distrayéndola#, provided he does not distract you.]