(La Abadesa, la tornera) (The abbess and the doorkeeper.)
TORNERA: Yo, señora. Milady, it's me.
ABADESA: ¿Vos en el claustro a You are still inside I see?
esta hora?
¿Qué es esto, hermana tornera? What's going on sister doorkeeper.
TORNERA: Madre abadesa, os buscaba. Mother Abbess, I was looking for you.
ABADESA: ¿Qué hay? Decid. What is it? Speak.
TORNERA: Un noble anciano An elderly noble
quiere hablaros. wants to speak to you.
ABADESA: Es en vano. It's not possible.
TORNERA: Dice que es de Calatrava He says he's a knight of Calatrava:
caballero; que sus fueros and that their laws allow
le autorizan a este paso, him to enter here
y que la urgencia del caso and it's urgent, so it's clear
le obliga al instante a veros. he means to see you now.
ABADESA: ¿Dijo su nombre? Did he give his name?
TORNERA: El señor El Señor
Don Gonzalo Ulloa. Don Gonzalo Ulloa.
ABADESA: ¿Qué What can he want here?
puede querer...? Abralé Open the door for him sister:
hermana: es Comendador He is a Comendador
de la orden, y derecho of our order and has the right
tiene en el claustro de entrada. to enter our cloister.