I know who that squire will end up being, because I’m familiar enough with the story of Don Quixote, from the place it occupies in the literary canon, and even, I suppose, the culture of the West, to have heard of his faithful companion, Sancho Panza. Only I do not know exactly when that character will appear, nor the circumstances that will precipitate his appearance. Already, in the chapter I am reading, Don Quixote has been sidetracked during his return to the village, so that his intentions have been thwarted, so to speak, if only temporarily, by events in the plot itself.