"She loves him like a father." Fray Salvi looked at him askance.
"I believe, Padre," continued Capitan Tiago, "that all her illness is the result of the trouble on the last day of the fiesta." "I'm of the same opinion, and think that you've done well not to let Senor Ibarra see her.

She would have got worse.
"If it wasn't for us," put in Dona Victorina, "Clarita would already be in heaven singing praises to God." "Amen!" Capitan Tiago thought it his duty to exclaim.

"It's lucky for you that my husband didn't have any patient of greater quality, for then you'd have had to call in another, and all those here are ignoramuses.

My husband--" "Just as I was saying," the curate in turn interrupted, "I think that the confession that Maria Clara made brought on the favorable crisis which has saved her life.

A clean conscience is worth more than a lot of medicine.