One Hundred Years of Solitude

her, and she would weep with
them over deaths that were
much more recent than the
guests themselves. The
children did not take long to
notice that in the course of
those ghostly visits Úrsula
would always ask a question
destined to establish the one
who had brought a life-size
plaster Saint Joseph to the
house to be kept until the
rains stopped. It was in that
way that Aureliano Segundo