One Hundred Years of Solitude

her breakfast ready when she
arose and she would leave her
room again only to get the
meal that Aureliano had left
covered on the embers for
her, which she would carry to
the table to eat on linen
tablecloths and between
candelabra, sitting at the
solitary head of the table
facing fifteen empty chairs.
Even under those
circumstances Aureliano and
Fernanda did not share their