Question

Camilla was uneasy at this, dreading lest it might prove the means of endangering her honour, and asked whether her intrigue had gone beyond words, and she with little shame and much effrontery said it had; for certain it is that ladies' imprudences make servants shameless, who, when they see their mistresses make a false step, think nothing of going astray themselves, or of its being known. All that Camilla could do was to entreat Leonela to say nothing about her doings to him whom she called her lover, and to conduct her own affairs secretly lest they should come to the knowledge of Anselmo or of Lothario.

Accepted Answer

Apuróla si pasaban sus pláticas a más que serlo. Ella, con poca vergüenza y mucha desenvoltura, le respondió que sí pasaban; porque es cosa ya cierta que los descuidos de las señoras quitan la vergüenza a las criadas, las cuales, cuando ven a las amas echar traspiés, no se les da nada a ellas de cojear, ni de que lo sepan. »No pudo hacer otra cosa Camila sino rogar a Leonela no dijese nada de su hecho al que decía ser su amante, y que tratase sus cosas con secreto, porque no viniesen a noticia de Anselmo ni de Lotario.

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