One Hundred Years of Solitude

that when she noticed the
complicity between father
and daughter the only
promise she extracted from
Aureliano Segundo was that
he would never take Meme to
Petra Cotess house. It was a
meaningless demand because
the concubine was so
annoyed with the
comradeship between her
lover and his daughter that
she did not want anything to
do with her. Petra was