Which the driver was getting bored with their precautions, their continuous warnings.

– Beware! Huh? What is that? A bump? Damn jump! Slowly … to step to step … no rush … How do you feel, child? These civil engineers! What roads! What a country!

And Emma, ​​unaware of the danger, he thought, “Yes, yes, the country, engineers, laugh at stories, laws, laws of nature, which to you seem unalterable and fun, these, these are the ones you will give a disappointment …».

He was sleepy, and half dreaming, half imagining voluntarily, felt a deformed creature, ridiculous, a arrugadillo old man who looked like a baby Jesus, full of loose skins, with wintry peach fuzz, it appeared from the bowels, was falling slowly into an abyss of a damp fog, foggy, and took leave grinning, waving goodbye with one hand, that was all that was beautiful, a coat of nacre, torneadita, so cute …. And she seized the hand, and gave him a kiss on her, and said he would say to the hand that clung to his “Farewell … Goodbye … it can not be … can not be …, I’m no good for that. Goodbye … … goodbye, look, the laws of nature are what make you fall, let go of my heart …. Farewell, my child, my little hand, goodbye … bye …. To eternity. ” And the figurine, which apparently was of wax, faded, melted at that caliginosa haze that enveloped the creature and she, Emma, ​​and suffocated, choked her …. He opened his eyes with a start and saw Bonis, with the look of Agnus Dei, as she said, tenderly, fixed his blue eyes in the womb that was their hope.

We arrived safely to shore. Emma took a bath the next day with the care the village doctor, consulted by Bonis, advised. For that doctor knew the Valcárcel, horrified, when it came to giving back to the city, which she believed abortion in those circumstances could be much more dangerous than childbirth at the time … because they would otherwise : a true labor before the bill, but abortion is not enforced. A premature baby precarious life, and great danger and great loss of the mother … that was what I could produce a trip to the city unless great precautions were taken