Don Quixote, Part 2, Chapter 50 summary

What happens

1. An attendant alerts the duchess, who listens with Altisidora and attacks Rodríguez and Don Quixote after hearing her bodily secret exposed.
2. The duchess sends a page to Teresa with letters, coral beads, and Sancho’s hunting clothes for Sanchica.
3. The page reads the letters, and Teresa celebrates the governorship and the duchess’s apparent friendship.
4. The priest and Sansón Carrasco inspect the gifts and question the page, who firmly confirms Sancho’s position.
5. Teresa and Sanchica imagine fashionable clothes and carriage rides, while the page insists that rank requires proper conduct.
6. The priest takes the page to eat, and Teresa pays an altar boy to write two replies.

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