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a pretended fit of anger, and then calls for help, whereupon 
Leonor, who has been in the next room, comes in saying she 
loves Hernando and begging Pedro not to harm him. She de- 
livers Juana's note and complains of Hernando’s treatment of 
her, promising to act as go-between for Pedro if he returns 
to Juana. Hernando will not let Pedro open the note, and 
assures him that all is well. 
The third act opens with Juana struggling with herself and 
wondering what change can have come over Pedro to make 
him transfer his affections so suddenly to someone else. 
Leonor comes in to say that Beatriz wants a book of plays to 
read. Juana is not long in covering up her confusion, altho 
Leonor has seen it. She tells Leonor to call Beatriz, and then 
she tells the latter of having heard her talking from the win- 
dow and that she has written to Don Luis telling him to come 
past the house some evening and see for himself. Hernando, 
presumably on the way to Pedro’s new lady, stops at Juana’s 
and shows her the diamond that Pedro is sending. It is 
wrapped in a paper on which, in a list of six “hated ones”, ap- 
pears her own name. There are also six “loved ones”, which 
list Pedro is sending at the request of the new lady in ques- 
tion. Juana keeps the paper and Hernando produces her un- 
opened note to Pedro to wrap the diamond in. She recognizes 
it and is beside herself with rage at being thus scorned. She 
says that she must see the lady, and Hernando says that it 
will be difficult, but he will take her some night to follow Pedro 
to see the lady. Leonor, so completely conquered by Her- 
nando’s scorn, and Beatriz, angry with Juana, on whom she 
has called down the vengeance of love, asks Hernando to try 
his art on “la del eterno rigor”, to which he replies that he 
cannot make Juana fall in love because she is already in love. 
He then lets them know the secret of her intention to follow 
Pedro, and adds that he intends to choose a rainy night for the 
adventure. Alonso and Juan, waiting for Pedro to come along 
in order to settle their differences, are seen by Don Luis, who 
thinks they are suitors of Beatriz and decides that this would 
be a good night to “rondar la calle” as Juana had suggested. 
He goes home to arm himself and sees Hernando and Juana 
leave the latter’s house. He asks who the lady is, and Juana 
says she is Beatriz going to visit her father. He decides to 
follow and, if she is having a rendezvous with a lover without 
