One Hundred Years of Solitude

place, in the same position,
and under the same light
when they brought her the
news of Rebecas death. She
sat down to wait for it, as one
waits for a letter, and the fact
was that at one time she
would pull off buttons to sew
them on again so that
inactivity would not make the
wait longer and more
anxious. No one in the house
realized that at that time
Amaranta was sewing a fine