Padre Damaso told me that a relative of his has just arrived from Spain and you are to marry him." Maria Clara covered her ears, while Aunt Isabel screamed, "Santiago, are you crazy?
To talk to her of another sweetheart now! Do you think that your daughter changes sweethearts as she does her camisa ?" "That's just the way I felt, Isabel.

Don Crisostomo is rich, while the Spaniards marry only for love of money.

But what do you want me to do?
They've threatened me with another excommunication.

They say that not only my soul but also my body is in great danger--my body, do you hear, my body!" "But you're only making your daughter more disconsolate! Isn't the Archbishop your friend?
Why don't you write to him ?" "The Archbishop is also a friar, the Archbishop does only what the friars tell him to do.

But, Maria, don't cry.