Read the excerpt from Blanca Flor. [As soon as JUANITO is asleep, BLANCA FLOR gently puts his head down and leaves, taking the thimble with her.]

The Narrator. When Juanito awoke, he frantically looked for the thimble and, not finding it, ran to the lake. When he reached the lake, he stood at its banks in amazement. All the water was gone. He looked over to the other part of the field, and there stood a lake where before there was nothing. He turned to look for Blanca Flor, but instead there was Don Ricardo.

[DON RICARDO enters.]

Why does the author include a narrator at this point of the play?

to explain what happens before Don Ricardo enters the stage
to show that Juanito emptied all of the water from the lake
to describe how Juanito feels at this moment
to reveal what Don Ricardo has been doing all this time