One Hundred Years of Solitude

be seen watering the flowers
four times a day so that her
son would not have a bad
impression of the house. It
was that same incentive
which induced her to speed
up her correspondence with
the invisible doctors and to
replace the pots of ferns and
oregano and the begonias on
the porch even before Úrsula
found out that they had been
destroyed by Aureliano
Segundos exterminating fury.