One Hundred Years of Solitude

that he would remember his
plan to marry Amaranta. Her
pleas seemed to be answered.
On the days that he would
have lunch at the house,
Colonel Gerineldo Márquez
would linger on the begonia
porch playing Chinese
checkers with Amaranta.
Úrsula would bring them
coffee and milk and biscuits
and would take over the
children so that they would
not bother them. Amaranta