One Hundred Years of Solitude

            He  has to  come    sooner  or

later, she told herself, even if
its just to put on those boots.

            She did not have    to  wait    as

long as she had imagined.
Actually, Aureliano Segundo
understood from the night of
his wedding that he would
return to the house of Petra
Cotes much sooner than when
he would have to put on the
patent leather boots: Fernanda
was a woman who was lost in