Act III. In the darkness of the night, _Tio Lucas_ and _Frasquita

pass by without seeing each other. The miller comes to his mill. (Change of scene.) Everything is open. In the dust lies the appointment of the nephew; before the fire hang the _Corregidor's_ clothes. A frightful suspicion arises in _Tio Lucas's_ mind which becomes certainty when through the keyhole he sees the _Corregidor_ in his own bed. He is already groping for his rifle to shoot the seducer and the faithless woman when another thought strikes him. The _Corregidor_ also has a wife, a beautiful wife. Here the _Corregidor's_ clothes are hanging. He quickly slips into them and goes back to town. In the meantime the _Corregidor_ has awakened. He wants to go back home now. But he does not find his clothes and so he crawls into those of the miller. Thus he is almost arrested by the alcalde who now enters with his companions and _Frasquita_. When the misunderstanding is cleared up, they all go with different feelings into the town after the miller.