19. Lo dicho, it's just as I said.

24. á qué viene, see voc. under venir.

26. ¡Lo que son las mujeres! what a queer lot women are!

27. Que may be explained as depending upon some verbal expression like dices, understood.

29. de que sus novios hayan dado media vuelta, that their suitors have turned their backs on them (i.e., have spurned them).

31. Puede que sí, see voc. under poder.

[44.]—7. que, trans. by if, or in case.

12. á no ser que, unless.

18. Estoy poniendo los puntos sobre las íes.—Di más bien: los pies sobre los callos, trans. freely, I am speaking to the point.—You mean that you are making matters worse (Sandalia also implies that he is treading on corns by assuming his daughters to have them).

[46.]—10. Ni tú á la tuya, nor do you resemble yours (i.e., your mother).