One Hundred Years of Solitude

that her husband was waiting
for it to clear to return to his
concubine. During the first
months of the rain she was
afraid that he would try to
slip into her bedroom and that
she would have to undergo
the shame of revealing to him
that she was incapable of
reconciliation since the birth
of Amaranta Úrsula. That was
the reason for her anxious
correspondence with the
invisible doctors, interrupted