repacked her bridal trunks
and left Macondo without
saying good-bye. Aureliano
Segundo caught up with her
on the swamp road. After
much pleading and promises
of reform he succeeded in
getting her to come home and
he abandoned his concubine.
Petra Cotes, aware of herstrength, showed no signs of
worry. She had made a man
of him. While he was still a