The Go-Between

Wilson then asked Barios the anteater if he lived there alone, but the armadillo, whose name was Eduardo, didn't bother translating the question, simply  telling W, 'There's just him and his girlfriend.'

''What is your girlfriend's name?' W called, and the armadillo transliterated the anteater's angry reply, 'Barios, he say, "Why you want to know this? She is washing her fur now, and she KEEP ON washing her fur until you gone."'

W said that he'd just have liked to meet her while he was here, and Eduardo translated the shouted reply, 'He say his girlfriend is mucho faithful and the y be getting married as soon as her family can get Entry Visas for wedding.'

Eduardo then announced that he didn't wish to become any further involved in this awkward conversation, curled up and went to sleep. 

I wish I could get off to sleep as easily as that — perhaps I should try curling up into a ball...