One Hundred Years of Solitude

would make an addition to his
bill, which was not figured in
numbers but by marks that
she made with her thumbnail
behind the door. At sundown,
while she was drifting
through the shadows in the
square, Aureliano, was going
along the porch like a
stranger, scarcely greeting
Amaranta Úrsula and Gaston,
who usually dined at that
time, and shutting herself up
in his room again, unable to