Finally, surrounded by boys, and attended by the curate and the bachelor, they entered the village, and got to Don Quixote’s house, where they found at the door his housekeeper and his niece, that had already got the news of their arrival.  Neither more nor less had been told to Teresa Panza, Sancho’s wife, who, with her hair about her ears, and half dressed, dragging by the hand her daughter Sanchica, came running to see her husband.  But when she found that he was not so well dressed as she thought a governor ought to be, she said to him, “What is the meaning of this, husband?  You look as though you had come on foot, and tired off your legs!  Why, you come more like a groveler than a governor!”—­“Peace, Teresa,” answered Sancho; “many a time when there are hooks, there are no flitches.  Let us go home, and then I will tell thee wonders.  I have taken care of the main chance.  Money I have, which is the chief thing, earned by my own industry without wronging anybody.”—­“Hast thou got money, my good husband?” said Teresa.  “Be it gained here or there, or however you like to gain it, you will have made no new sort of profit in the world.”  Sanchica, hugging her father, asked him if he had brought her anything, for she had been longing for him as for rain in May.  Thus holding him by the girdle on one side, and his wife taking him by the hand, and his daughter leading Dapple, away they went to his house, leaving Don Quixote in his, under the care of his niece and housekeeper, in company with the curate and bachelor.

That very moment Don Quixote, regardless of times and seasons, took the bachelor and the curate aside, and in few words gave them an account of his defeat and the obligation he lay under of not leaving his village for a year, which, like a knight-errant bound by the strictness and discipline of knight-errantry, he was resolved to observe to the letter without infringing it one jot.  And that he intended to make himself a shepherd for that year, and entertain himself in the solitude of the fields, where he might give play to his amorous thoughts with a loose rein, and employ himself in that pastoral and virtuous exercise; and he begged them, if they had not much to do, and if business of greater importance were not an obstruction, that they would please to be his companions; for he would provide sheep and cattle enough to give them the name of shepherds; and that he would have them know that the chief part of the undertaking was done, for he had provided them all with names that would fit them exactly.  The curate asked him to tell them.  Don Quixote told him he would himself be called the shepherd Quixotiz, and the bachelor the shepherd Carrascon, and the curate the shepherd Curiambro, and Sancho Panza the shepherd Pancino.