It was not Tremolino's fault that the syndicate depended so much on the wit and wisdom and the information of Dona Rita.
In answer to his politely sinister, prolonged glance of inquiry, I overheard Dona Rita murmuring, with some confusion and annoyance, "VOUS ETES BETE MON CHER.
Dressed in shore-togs, a white starched shirt, black jacket, and round hat, as I took him once to see Dona Rita, he was extremely presentable.
It was precisely to confer on that matter with Dona Rita that Captain Blunt had been despatched from Headquarters.
Their purpose explains the intimate tone given to their first conversation and the sudden introduction of Dona Rita's history.
They then asked the landlord if by any chance a youth of about fifteen years of age had come to that inn, one dressed like a muleteer, and of such and such an appearance, describing that of Dona Clara's lover.
It was by this time broad daylight; and for that reason, as well as in consequence of the noise Don Quixote had made, everybody was awake and up, but particularly Dona Clara and Dorothea; for they had been able to sleep but badly that night, the one from agitation at having her lover so near her, the other from curiosity to see him.
Dorothea at this instant came out of her room, followed by Dona Clara all in a tremor; and calling Cardenio aside, she told him in a few words the story of the musician and Dona Clara, and he at the same time told her what had happened, how his father's servants had come in search of him; but in telling her so, he did not speak low enough but that Dona Clara heard what he said, at which she was so much agitated that had not Dorothea hastened to support her she would have fallen to the ground.
"Senor, I have no more to tell you than that from the moment when, through heaven's will and our being near neighbours, I first saw Dona Clara, your daughter and my lady, from that instant I made her the mistress of my will, and if yours, my true lord and father, offers no impediment, this very day she shall become my wife.
Ainda que vincule a possibilidade da existencia de
donas de casa no proletariado ao desenvolvimento das forcas produtivas e a transicao para a producao em massa, a autora pressupoe, no entanto, que, para alem desses fatores, tanto o desenvolvimento das forcas produtivas quanto a emergencia do Estado de Bem-estar Social tiveram como fundamento a exploracao das colonias.