One Hundred Years of Solitude

became so impatient with the
suffocating fluttering that she
felt the impulse to confide her
secret to him as she had
promised, but instinct told her
that he would laugh as usual
and say: What would your
mother say if she found out?
One morning, while she was
pruning the roses, Fernanda
let out a cry of fright and had
Meme taken away from the
spot where she was, which
was the same place in the