gabriel garcia love in the time of cholera

What Florentino Ariza did not know was that Dr. That left the eleven telegraph operators in Hildebranda Sánchez’s province who had handled telegrams with their complete names and exact addresses, and Hildebranda Sánchez herself, and her court of indomitable cousins. Lorenzo Daza (no one knew if he was alive or dead) might have revealed the secret to Sister Franca de la Luz when he was trying to stop Fermina Daza’s expulsion, but it was unlikely that it had gone any further. Three of them were, beyond the shadow of any doubt, in the grave: his mother, whose memory had been erased long before she died Gala Placidia, who had died of old age in the service of one who had been like a daughter to her and the unforgettable Escolástica Daza, the woman who had brought him the first love letter he had ever received in his life, hidden in her prayerbook, and who could not still be alive after so many years. The few people who had known were beginning to forget for reasons over which they had no control. Leona Cassiani was the only human being to whom Florentino Ariza was tempted to reveal the secret of Fermina Daza.

From that night on, any cloud there might have been between them was dissipated without bitterness, and Florentino Ariza understood at last that it is possible to be a woman’s friend and not go to bed with her.

Gabriel garcia love in the time of cholera