One Hundred Years of Solitude

Then she confided in her son
José Arcadio and the latter
sent her the pessaries from
Rome along with a pamphlet
explaining their use, which
she flushed down the toilet
after committing it to
memory so that no one would
learn the nature of her
troubles. It was a useless
precaution because the only
people who lived in the house
scarcely paid any attention to
her. Santa Sofía de la Piedad