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is in love with Celia. On hearing Celia’s name she is 
sure that it is Fernando who is in love with Celia. She sends 
him for Juan, whom she tells, after hearing him say that 
neither of them is in love with Celia, that there is a lady in 
the city who loves him. Later she goes, veiled, to call on him 
and tell him that she loves him, and while she is there Fer- 
nando comes. Aided by Juan, she makes up an explanation 
for her presence to the effect that she saw two women enter 
his house and was prompted by jealousy to come. Fernando 
is a little suspicious of both Juan and Lisarda as they go away 
together, promising to be friends. Celia has been unable to 
rendir Juan and decides to use jealousy, by having Teodoro 
play the part of her lover. Mendo tells Celia of the beautiful 
woman to whom Juan is engaged, that his father-in-law is 
much disturbed at his attention to Celia, and that now that 
she belongs to another, there is nothing for him to do but 
marry, as was his intention even tho he no longer loves the 
first woman. Celia refuses to give up and sends Ines to Juan 
saying that she is ill because of his jealousy and to send her 
a bandage. Mendo remarks that Juan, tho swearing he is 
not in love, sends her a liga de oro. Juan makes the same pre- 
tense and Celia sends him a cadena de oro . He then goes to 
see her and they both pretend to faint. Trebacio, represent- 
ing Juan’s future father-in-law, arrives and reviles Juan, tak- 
ing him away. Celia says, “Celos, celos, yo me rindo”. 108 
In the third act, Mendo, acting as doctor, decides that the 
fact that Juan has felt an impulse to give Celia money shows 
that he is in love. Celia, to get even with him, decides to have 
Teodoro pretend to be Anastasio de Palermo, whom she is to 
marry. Juan goes to her house and both admit to each other 
that they do not care for the persons they are to marry, and 
are about to come to an agreement when Juan, to test her 
further, pretends to recall a loan of 2,000 ducats which he 
cannot repay to his father-in-law and so must marry. Celia, 
who is wealthy, promises to get the money for him, but when 
he goes after it with Fernando, whom he has told that he has 
conquered Celia, the latter has decided to continue to make 
Juan jealous and says that since Anastasio is to be the master 
of her estate, she cannot let him have the money. Juan tells 
Trebacio immediately that he is ready to marry his daughter, 
108 De cosario, Act I, scene xxvi. 
