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who gets her father to arrange for their marriage. Ortensia 
hears the conversation and becomes increasingly indignant, 
but will not let Felix take advantage of his opportunity to es- 
cape when Alfonsa goes for chocolate, and her father leaves 
the room to settle the marriage dowry. While Ortensia is 
talking with Felix and Talego, Alexo, having been told by 
Martin that there are two men in Ortensia’s room, appears, 
and Ortensia makes the two hide. Onofre and Ordonez come 
in in time to hear the accusation by Alexo and they all search. 
Onofre finds Felix but pretends not to, swearing to have ven- 
geance on Ortensia later. Alexo appears in the wrong, but, 
not convinced, decides to watch the house all night. Talego 
decides to stay where he is rather than risk being caught by 
Alexo. 
In the third act, Juana, ordered by Ortensia to see that Felix 
escapes, comes early in the morning to let him out, but is de- 
layed successively by Martin, who has an offer of marriage 
for her, by Alexo and by Alfonsa. She finally succeeds, and 
after telling her mistress that Felix has said that she was more 
beautiful than Ortensia, the two go to his house, disguised. 
Alfonsa and Luisa do the same and have to hide when Ordonez 
appears. He thinks he saw Ortensia but does not insist on 
knowing who the lady in Felix’s room is until he goes home to 
make sure that she is not there. He returns very angry and 
is ready to fight when Alfonsa shows herself and then makes 
Ortensia appear. The only thing to do for the honor of al] 
is for Ortensia and Felix to marry. Ordonez makes Alfonsa 
and Alexo do the same, and the latter is satisfied since he can- 
not have Ortensia. 
In this play we find two forces coming together much in 
the same fashion as in El desden con el desden. As Talego 
says in the first act (p. 322) : 
De los dos 
se dixo por cosa cierta, 
encontraronse dos arroyuelos. 
This coming together is, however, found only at the begin- 
ning of the play and is not a struggle which increases in in- 
tensity until conquering the lady in question by using her own 
tactics to better advantage than she does herself, which is, 
as we recall, the case between Carlos and Diana. Except for 
this initial argument between Ortensia and Felix in which we 
are reminded of some of those taking place in El desden con 
