Márquez repeated his wish to
marry her, she rejected him.
Im not going to marry
anyone, she told him, much
less you. You love Aureliano
so much that you want to
marry me because you cant
marry him.
Colonel Gerineldo
Márquez was a patient man.
Ill keep on insisting, he said.
Sooner or later Ill convince
you. He kept on visiting the