One Hundred Years of Solitude

he was sure that José Arcadio
Segundo was not going to
visit their common mistress
that night, he would go and
sleep with her. One morning
he found that he was sick.
Two days later he found his
brother clinging to a beam in
the bathroom, soaked in
sweat and with tears pouring
down, and then he
understood. His brother
confessed to him that the
woman had sent him away